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Joking in sentence

106 examples of Joking in a sentence

If we could acknowledge that, we wouldn’t be joking about it.
When Pope Benedict XVI resigned, she shocked Argentine Catholics by joking that she would try to be a “papisa,” that is, if princesses of the church were allowed.
Some chuckled; maybe they thought I was joking.
I wish I were joking, but I am not.
Seeing our visible awkwardness, people came up to us, laughing, joking, and chatting with the children.
But this morning there was much amusement: they were joking Mouquette, a putter girl of eighteen, whose enormous breasts and flanks were bursting through her old jacket and breeches.
But the noise of the bolts fixing themselves, the sensation of solidity beneath, suddenly cheered him; and he was joking when he said to Catherine:"What have you got under your skin to be so warm?
It was monstrous; he did not like joking on such subjects.
When Maheu had quieted them by speaking of the dandelion salad, he and his comrade set about joking the young woman with the coarseness of good-natured devils.
" Madame Hennebeau, alarmed at seeing the mother and daughter also white with fear, hastened to intervene, saying:"Paul is joking, my dear sir."
He was joking, but his voice trembled.
Cécile, rosy with health and glad to breathe so pure an air, was cheerfully joking, while Madame Hennebeau made a little grimace of repugnance as she murmured:"The fact is, this is not pretty at all."
He laughed, with a joking air, and, giving a final blow to the block, disappeared in the black dust which arose.
"Oh, very well, take them!" said Emma."I was only joking," he replied; "the only thing I regret is the whip.
He was not joking; but vanity getting the better of all prudence, Leon, in spite of himself protested.
"I don't really know, exactly," said the man, once more totally unsure of himself; he clearly thought K. was joking with him and therefore probably thought it best to repeat his earlier answer in order to avoid making any new mistakes.
"This is joking too far," cried the Skinner, in a tone of remonstrance, and raising himself on his toes, with the vain hope of releasing himself from the cord, by slipping his head through the noose.
But I am sure that you are joking about the soldiering."
"I'll let you see if I am joking."
Sometimes when he talked I thought he was joking, and at other times it was not quite so easy to say.
Sancho seeing that he was getting an awkward return in earnest for his jest, and fearing his master might carry it still further, said to him very humbly, "Calm yourself, sir, for by God I am only joking."
"Well, then, if you are joking I am not," replied Don Quixote.
"Who should it be," said the barber, "but the famous Don Quixote of La Mancha, the undoer of injustice, the righter of wrongs, the protector of damsels, the terror of giants, and the winner of battles?""That," said the goatherd, "sounds like what one reads in the books of the knights-errant, who did all that you say this man does; though it is my belief that either you are joking, or else this gentleman has empty lodgings in his head."
you let that youth alone, and go back to where you came from, or anywhere else if you like; my squire is as clean as any other person, and those troughs are as bad as narrow thin-necked jars to him; take my advice and leave him alone, for neither he nor I understand joking."
The bachelor offered to write the letters in reply for Teresa; but she did not care to let him mix himself up in her affairs, for she thought him somewhat given to joking; and so she gave a cake and a couple of eggs to a young acolyte who was a penman, and he wrote for her two letters, one for her husband and the other for the duchess, dictated out of her own head, which are not the worst inserted in this great history, as will be seen farther on.
'No; but you're joking, though.''I am not, indeed.''Why, then,' said Mr. Magnus, 'to let you into a little secret, I think so too.
In two minutes thereafter, Mr. Pickwick was joking with the young ladies who wouldn't come over the stile while he looked--or who, having pretty feet and unexceptionable ankles, preferred standing on the top rail for five minutes or so, declaring that they were too frightened to move--with as much ease and absence of reserve or constraint, as if he had known them for life.
"Oh, yes, I am not joking," he continued, seeing my look of incredulity.
"But you are joking.
"You are certainly joking, Holmes."
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