1.   At school the other kids always made jokes about my name.

2.   Doing long division is a mental process and so is making a joke.

3.   He could not bring himself to apologise.

4.   Instead, he tried to make a joke of it.

5.   I tried making a joke but it failed to impress anyone.

6.   Kate tried to make jokes but inside she was furious.

7.   My mother always makes a joke of everything.

8.   My mother makes a joke of just about everything.

9.   That readiness to make a joke of life had been temporarily eclipsed.

10.   The notion that he might make any joke, except an obscene one, I dismissed without a second thought.