How to Use good humor in a Sentence

good humor

noun

• And make sure your other guests can loosen up enough to join in with good humor.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 27 July 2023
• Regardless of the reason for the trip, Bryan played it off with good humor.
  — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 21 Apr. 2024
• Meanwhile, Lind looked on in good humor from a few feet away as the costars posed together.
  — Sophie Dodd, Peoplemag, 8 Mar. 2023
• Such good humor is a salve to the novel’s abiding tragedy of loss and prejudice.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 6 June 2023
• The Rabbit convertible sparkles with a good humor not one car in a hundred has.
  — Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 3 Mar. 2023
• Over the phone, the brothers radiate a genial good humor.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 11 June 2023
• But many of us will remember him mostly for his spirit and good humor.
  — Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 10 Oct. 2010
• On Wednesday, the winds were tender in the slow second movement, and the lilting ländler dance of the third was played with both delicacy and good humor.
  — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 9 May 2024
• But beneath Cody Bellinger’s good humor Friday were his haunting hands.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2023
• Alternatively, the same leader can come into a room with a spirit of good humor, tell a joke and lighten the mood.
  — Mike Weinberger, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2023
• Is there a better way to handle these types of questions while maintaining some degree of good humor?
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2023
• Their mission is to save lives while sharing good humor, and belief in victory.
  — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 23 Mar. 2023
• Tony responded with good humor, hard work — and a .338 Hall of Fame batting average.
  — Bill Swank, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Dec. 2023
• Easygoing, humble, funny, and even to respond with grace and good humor when fans would taunt him about his team’s poor showing.
  — Linda Solomon, Detroit Free Press, 20 Jan. 2024
• The superstar nearly tripped and fell while performing an Eras Tour show in Tokyo on Friday, but brushed off the incident with some good humor.
  — Rachel Desantis, Peoplemag, 9 Feb. 2024
• Piper and Martínez Yépez sang with authority, energy, brute force and good humor.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2023
• The whistleblower’s wages of stress Barnett began his North Charleston stint in 2010 with high hopes and typical good humor, say his mom and brother.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 28 Mar. 2024
• Courtesy of Orion Pictures Jefferson navigates all of this tricky business with a mix of grace and good humor.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 15 Dec. 2023
• But the sheer loveliness and good humor of the vignettes transform each sliver of Mr. Palomar’s life into an expansive state of being.
  — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
• The Hamilton alums shared the happy news with heartfelt words and good humor, posting an Instagram photo of their newborn's little legs in a green onesie.
  — Shania Russell, EW.com, 7 Mar. 2024
• Richard Linklater directs this foxy caper with buoyant good humor.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 2 June 2024
• Few actors have shown his gift for mingling fearlessness with such jubilant good humor.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 20 June 2024
• But Woodell grants him enough good humor that Dexter’s ease becomes a natural foil to Emma’s prickliness.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Feb. 2024
• The drive to complete that escape would take Mr. Stewart first to the stage and then to the television and film roles that have depended on his balance between stately British delivery and puckish, trans-Atlantic good humor.
  — Barbara Spindel, WSJ, 17 Nov. 2023
• Like good policy, all good humor is grounded in reality, no?
  — Matt Laslo, WIRED, 13 Oct. 2023
• Wenders’ film, in turn, is sincere and unassuming, and owns its sentimentality with good humor.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 25 May 2023
• Stack draws on an element of Monty Python-ish good humor (Simon is, unsurprisingly, a big fan of their comedy) but is able to downshift into brawler mode at any moment.
  — Vulture, 29 Oct. 2023
• Gore resisted self-pity by projecting mordant good humor.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2023
• Below, some good humor in lieu of our favorites like late-night television and Abbott Elementary on indefinite pause.
  — Vulture, 2 May 2023
• Queens and kings competing in a ball usually do so with a pleasure, good humor, and solidarity that comes from struggling and suffering together in an inhospitable world.
  — Gabriel N. Rosenberg, The New Republic, 3 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 2 Dec 2024