How to Use laughing matter in a Sentence

laughing matter

noun

• For Ukrainians, and the world, this is no laughing matter.
  — Michael Bociurkiw, CNN, 11 Feb. 2022
• But Orgeron knows the loss to MSU is no laughing matter.
  — Jeff Duncan, NOLA.com, 22 Sep. 2017
• Joshua smiling, but no laughing matter here for the Brit.
  — Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 25 Sep. 2021
• But the threats police calls can present for black people are rarely a laughing matter.
  — Beatrice Dupuy, Teen Vogue, 7 May 2018
• New York Fashion Week events have been kicking off in the last few days, and this is no laughing matter for Holmes.
  — Iris Goldsztajn, Marie Claire, 10 Sep. 2021
• But the work of these volunteers is no laughing matter.
  — Tom Soufi Burridge, ABC News, 10 Oct. 2022
• She's got a husband who trained some of the January Sixers, and that none of that is a laughing matter.
  — Chancellor Agard, EW.com, 29 July 2021
• In South Korea, though, the image has been no laughing matter.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2021
• For the folks at the Onion, labor relations are no laughing matter.
  — Lukas I. Alpert, WSJ, 29 Mar. 2018
• Still, the country's belief in elves is no laughing matter.
  — Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 1 July 2020
• In the early 1990s, as is the case today, AIDS was certainly not a laughing matter.
  — Matthew J. Palm, OrlandoSentinel.com, 14 Oct. 2017
• Watt, and the Cardinals, surely hope their play in 2021 will be no laughing matter.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 20 Mar. 2021
• The issue of Berkshire Hathaway and climate change is no longer a laughing matter for you.
  — Robert G. Eccles, Forbes, 29 June 2021
• The line was met by applause and some laughs, but her expression signaled that this was no laughing matter to her.
  — Drew Kann, CNN, 28 Sep. 2019
• Legendary late night talk show host Jay Leno has learned that some topics are no laughing matter.
  — Falen Hardge, PEOPLE.com, 29 Sep. 2021
• The Democrats may have made their recommendations in jest, yet the truth's no laughing matter.
  — Naomi Lim, Washington Examiner, 23 Oct. 2020
• On the other hand, pick ? and followers will know this is likely not a laughing matter.
  — Madeline Buxton, refinery29.com, 10 May 2018
• Though the narrative is told through a comedic lens, the subject at hand is no laughing matter: the church might need saving from itself.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 8 Sep. 2022
• Rather than challenge Putin, Trump treated it as a laughing matter.
  — Michael Crowley, BostonGlobe.com, 28 June 2019
• And even Lattimore would agree that's no laughing matter.
  — Rod Walker, NOLA.com, 10 Jan. 2021
• Set at 75%, this smooth drinking spirit is no laughing matter.
  — Michael Bartiromo, Fox News, 10 July 2018
• But according to many women—celebrity chef Ina Garten among them—the role roast chicken plays in matters of the heart is no laughing matter.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 29 Nov. 2017
• For investors, though, the question of whether the U.S. is headed into a recession is no laughing matter.
  — Spencer Jakab, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2022
• Cardwell was jesting, of course, but the 6-foot-11 center’s defense at the rim early this season has been no laughing matter.
  — Tom Green | [e-mail], al, 15 Nov. 2022
• In real life, though, setting boundaries with friends is no laughing matter.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2022
• The way that Muslims are portrayed onscreen, and their absence behind the camera, is no laughing matter.
  — Dr. Stacy L. Smith, Variety, 7 Sep. 2022
• And truthfully, the world of remote court hearings often isn't a laughing matter.
  — Andrew Wolfson, USA TODAY, 22 Dec. 2020
• Others couldn't help but compare her to Santa Claus, but getting stuck in a chimney is no laughing matter.
  — Joelle Goldstein, PEOPLE.com, 16 June 2021
• This is no laughing matter, given the deadly nature of the disease and the shots anyone who is bitten has to endure to ward off infection.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 7 Apr. 2022
• The work of this Foundation and the Archdiocese’s Champions is no laughing matter.
  — Valerie Strauss, Washington Post, 16 May 2018

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024