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How to use jokingly in a sentence

18 example sentences · adverb

Jokingly means in a joking manner. Example: “Jimmy jokingly called Bob a doofus. Bob took the insult seriously.”

Examples of jokingly by meaning

adverbIn a joking manner.

  • San Jose, the county seat, is jokingly referred to as “Man Jose” by the locals, and with good reason: In the 22 to 29 age cohort, Santa Clara County has 37,410 never-married, college-grad men versus 27,147 never-married, college-grad women.2015, Jon Birger, Date-onomics: How Dating Became a Lopsided Numbers Game, Hachette UK, →ISBN
  • Ramsay and Lil Nas X’s panini party comes less than two weeks after the latter had jokingly asked the “Masterchef” star to make a guest appearance on the remix of his latest single, “Panini.”2019 July 5, Michael Bartiromo, “Gordon Ramsay and Lil Nas X meet up to make panini sandwiches, play with knives”, in Fox News, archived...

More sentences with jokingly

  • Jimmy jokingly called Bob a doofus. Bob took the insult seriously.From the entry seriously
  • I told him to hand me a calculator and he jokingly placed an adding machine at my side.From the entry calculator
  • Some people jokingly referred to it as a “butt chin.” Sheppard's dimpled chin wasn't at all unsightly.2007, Nancy Taylor Rosenberg, Sullivan's Evidence, page 334. From the entry butt chin
  • Most psivamps note a different flavor or feel to Otherkin, some even jokingly calling Otherkin 'energetic candy'.2006, Sebastiaan van Houten, The Vampyre Almanac 2006, page 36. From the entry psivamp
  • “Where are we going, Jean-Michel?” He answered jokingly, “To the métro.2005, Gini Anding, Witness on the Quay, iUniverse, Inc., →ISBN, page 45. From the entry métro
  • Still, the writer and director jokingly cautions that Serenity is not the start of a trilogy.2005 October 1, Daniel Eagan, “Finding Serenity”, in Film Journal International. From the entry openture
  • The Nets players sometimes jokingly call Derrick Coleman, of all things, Joe Jackson.1993 January 24, Mike Freeman, “Nets' Coleman: No Ordinary 'Joe'”, in The New York Times. From the entry RAF
  • Somebody at Marvel jokingly said it was a combination of gold and silver, and they decided to say it was 'gilver'.2018, Jonathan Wilkins, Ant-Man and the Wasp, page 86. From the entry gilver
  • They would go for what was jokingly tagged 'pre-venge'.2008, Duncan Campbell-Smith, Follow the Money: a History of the Audit Commission, Penguin UK (pages not numbered). From the entry prevenge
  • Of course, I jokingly offered the girls our frozen pig.2006, Ben Applebaum, Ryan McNally, & Derrick Pittman, Class Dismissed: 75 Outrageous, Mind-Expanding College Exploits (and Lessons That…. From the entry pigsicle
  • Hyperion jokingly switches between primitive tribes, medieval monks and Knights Templar, the cyberpunk near future and far-flung interstellar travel.2005, Roger Luckhurst, Science Fiction, Polity, →ISBN, page 226, →ISBN. From the entry contemporalities
  • She always jokingly called me her “little Ashkephardi.”2004, Ramona R. Freedman, Moving Home: My Path to Jewish Observance, Gefen Publishing House Ltd, →ISBN, page 8. From the entry Ashkephardi
  • Okay if somewhat kibbly monster mode, but the monster flesh molding in D20 mode kills its ability to be used even jokingly as a die.2023 January 11, Dave Van Domelen, “Dave's Dicelings Rant: Wave 1”, in alt.toys.transformers (Usenet), archived from the original on 26…. From the entry kibbly
  • He added jokingly: “So very inclusive, in fact, there were a couple of places where everybody was murdered and butchered, pour encourager les autres.”2023 July 1, Catherine Lough, “Genghis Khan ‘a Blairite before his time’”, in The Daily Telegraph, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the…. From the entry pour encourager les autres
  • At one point, the interplay between Lieberman and Dean was so pointed that a moderator jokingly asked the two "to take it outside."2004 January 5, Brian Knowlton, “Dean and Lieberman tangle during debate in Iowa”, in New York Times, retrieved 15 Sep 2015. From the entry take it outside
  • For larger individuals—what the Fatosphere jokingly refers to as “deathfat” as a play on the term “morbidly obese”— leaving their homes opens them to criticism and ridicule.2012, Lonie McMichael, Ph.D., Talking Fat: Health vs. Persuasion in the War on Our Bodies, unnumbered page. From the entry fatosphere

Meaning of jokingly

  1. adverb In a joking manner.

Full definition of jokingly

Questions about jokingly in a sentence

How do you use jokingly in a sentence?
Jokingly is used as an adverb. For example: “Jimmy jokingly called Bob a doofus. Bob took the insult seriously.”
What is a short sentence with jokingly?
“She always jokingly called me her “little Ashkephardi.””
What does jokingly mean?
Jokingly means in a joking manner.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jokingly (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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