How to use humour in a sentence

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• She has a well-developed sense of humour.From the entry well-developed
• Satirical literature can commonly be categorised as Horatian, Juvenalian or Menippean. Horatian satire playfully criticizes some social vice through gentle, mild, and light-hearted humour.From the entry Horatian
• He said it in good humour.From the entry good humour
• It’s a dark or morbid humour, that makes light of a subject matter that is generally taboo.2023, Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat, Vintage (2024), pages 80-81. From the entry black humour
• Like most internet humour, if you get it, you get it.2023 March 30, Hannah Ewens, “'Why am I crying over this?': how corecore TikTok videos caught the mood of Gen Z”, in Katharine Viner…. From the entry corecore
• This is a planned city, built wholesale from scratch, and coloured with a mimetic sense of humour.2022 November 27, Barney Ronay, “Welcome to Lusail: Lego-city of the gods and one of the strangest places on earth”, in The Guardian. From the entry mimetic
• Leave the humour at the door, if that’s what they do.2020 December 21, Bryan Lufkin, “How 'linguistic mirroring' can make you more convincing”, in BBC. From the entry leave at the door
• TAB is used with a certain subversive humour, to challenge the security of the 'able-bodied' position.[2014, Deborah Marks, Disability: Controversial Debates and Psychosocial Perspectives, page 18. From the entry temporarily able-bodied
• Despite the evident good humour of the gesture, he was booked by referee Mark Clattenburg.2011 October 23, Phil McNulty, “Man Utd 1 - 6 Man City”, in BBC Sport. From the entry personal life
• DB okay for one time laughs. at the crass, guttery humour.2011 July 1, “Bbuddah Hoga Tera Baap Movie Review”, in Times of India. From the entry guttery
• No wonder planet earth was assimilated. ¶ The reason? ¶ NSOH ¶ (NO sense of humour).2006 April 27, BORG, “Hello!”, in alt.tasteless.jokes (Usenet). From the entry NSOH
• Pointed out the foibles and ridicularities (new word?) of humanity with humour and grace.2005 June 13, Jon., “Who Is Your Hero?”, in alt.atheism (Usenet), retrieved 12 Jul 2022. From the entry ridicularity
• Being a native of Northumberland, she was enjoying their banter and Geordie good humour.2001, William F. Gray, The Villain, iUniverse, page 214. From the entry crack
• The only really unique aspect of Australian barracking is its idiom, the distinctive language and humour involved.1988, J. A. Mangan, editor, Pleasure, Profit, Proselytism: British Culture and Sport at Home and Abroad 1700-1914, page 266. From the entry barrack
• Actually it's humour from the peasants' revolt, the thirty years' war, and from the Napoleonic wars.1971, Kurt Vonnegut, “Running Experiments Off: An Interview”, in Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut. From the entry gallows humor
• The main difference between America's humor and England's humour is that they overspell it.1969, William Cole, The Punch line. From the entry overspell
• A leechdom if thou will that an ill swelling and the venomous humour should burst out.quoted in 1965, Rerum Britannicarum Medii Ævi scriptores. From the entry leechdom
• Abby could tell by his voice that he wasn't in his sneerful humour but was friendly drunk.1944, Edith Pope, Colcorton, page 193. From the entry sneerful
• But Marin persists, and what ebullience and good humour, in the rocky ungentle loam?1922 April, Paul Rosenfeld, “The Water-Colours of John Marin: A Note on the Work of the First American Painter of the Day”, in John Peale…. From the entry bewail
• Shirley was a lad of sixteen, sedate, sensible, thoughtful, full of a quiet humour.1921, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 2, in Rilla of Ingleside. From the entry Shirley
• Why is the middle-class so stodgy—so utterly without a sense of humour!1918 August, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Bliss”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company…. From the entry stodgy
• The boy became volubly friendly and bubbling over with unexpected humour and high spirits.1909 September 9, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], chapter I, in The Squire’s Daughter, London: Methuen & Co. […]…. From the entry ballroom
• In Plato we have this humour toned down into a refined irony.1905, The Gentleman's Magazine - Volume 299, page 599. From the entry spinous
• Efforts were, therefore, made to keep him in good humour, but he remained dogged and perversed, refusing to see the Magistrate.2021, Ravi Ranjan & M.K.Singh, The Revolt of 1857, page 185. From the entry perversed
• His sense of humour, together with his rationalism and ideology, helped me enormously on my road to recovery.2015, Douggie Barker, Catch Mumps at the Boot Sale, →ISBN. From the entry let the grass grow under one's feet
• Bradshaw doesn't find much humour in it though, and beats the tar out of Dustin, potatoing him with every blow.2014, James Dixon, Arnold Furious, Bob Dahlstrom, The Raw Files: 1998, page 26. From the entry potato
• The bold Buccaneer who sailed the seven seas in all their varied humours had become a whimpering, parrotless child.2014, Keith M. Costain, The Opera Singer, FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 338. From the entry parrotless
• If you decided on abstract thought, clever humour and insight.2012 May, Carolina Montejo, “Sapiosexuality: The intelligent foreplay”, in Vangardist, page 126. From the entry sapiosexual
• However the underlying humour is always there.2010, J. A. Hadfield, Why Do We Laugh, Lulu.com, page 202. From the entry pawky
• Enough of my bathroom humour, my potty mouth.2007 November 16, Janet Stewart, “Feral cats need someone to lend a hand”, in Winnipeg Free Press. From the entry potty mouth
• And we all know that self-deprecating jokes are the most effective, the most widely appreciated form of humour.2004, Kate Fox, “Rules of Sex”, in Watching the English, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 325. From the entry self-deprecating
• Montezuma's Revenge, everybody knows, is the persistent intestinal illness that spoils the good humour of tourists in the tropics.1994, John-Claude Guillebaud, “Montezuma’s Revenge”, in John Simmons, transl., Return to Vietnam, London; New York, N.Y.: Verso Books…. From the entry Montezuma's revenge
• Wackers are the inhabitants of the city of Liverpool – famed for their humour, football, dockers and judies.1993, Anthony Griffiths, Scouse Wars, Bluecoat Press, →ISBN, page 6. From the entry wacker
• If this is drawn from life, it indicates that the exegetes discharged their functions with humour and common sense.1960, ibid.. From the entry exegete
• As various other conreports have indicated, the comments of the audience during this show were rich in fannish humour.1952 October, Fred J. Robinson, “Contemplations, part 2”, in Straight Up, volume 1, number 5. From the entry conreport

Meaning of humour

1. noun The quality of being amusing, comical, funny.
2. noun A mood, especially a bad mood; a temporary state of mind or disposition brought upon by an event; an abrupt illogical inclination or whim.
3. noun Any of the fluids in an animal body, especially the four "cardinal humours" of blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm that were believed to control the health and mood of the human body.

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Questions about humour in a sentence

How do you use humour in a sentence?

Humour is used as a noun and verb. For example: “She has a great sense of humour, and I always laugh a lot whenever we get together.”

What is a short sentence with humour?

“He said it in good humour.”

What does humour mean?

Humour means the quality of being amusing, comical, funny.