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. |