How to Use running joke/gag in a Sentence

running joke/gag

noun
  • The Chiefs star was a good sport about the running joke.
    Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 19 Sep. 2023
  • By the end of the tour, telling Tupac to calm down had become a running joke.
    Staci Robinson, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2023
  • That mountain lion one, that's the one that is a running joke.
    Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 2 July 2024
  • The running joke was that my mom looked at my dad to become pregnant.
    Susie Kantar-Cohen, Glamour, 22 Oct. 2020
  • In her one-woman show, there’s a running joke that Kate Berlant cannot cry on cue.
    Seija Rankin, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Paid in Full was always the name of the album because that was our running joke.
    Kyle Eustice, SPIN, 27 Feb. 2024
  • And for months, there was a running joke about whether Kamala was even showing up to do her job.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2023
  • The final name came from a running joke between the band and Chris Adamson, the roadie whose voice opens the album.
    Al Shipley, SPIN, 24 Mar. 2023
  • The show’s failure to cast an Asian lead, until now, has become a running joke among fans.
    Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024
  • And Davis made the confusion between him and his alter ego a running joke.
    Alex Bhattacharji, Rolling Stone, 4 Aug. 2024
  • Soon, the idea of opening a bar became a running joke among his social circle.
    Amanda Yeager, Baltimore Sun, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The couple’s son is a running joke in the sequel as Gus (Michael Constantine) tries to marry him off.
    Zack Sharf, Variety, 26 Oct. 2023
  • There’s a running gag, for instance, about Leaphorn and Manuelito’s disdain for Chee’s new polyester leisure suit.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 30 July 2023
  • The running joke that’s had a lot of truth to it is that KU is a men’s basketball school, due to the program’s football history.
    Michael Haag, Dallas News, 20 Oct. 2022
  • In a running joke, the band kept up their banter with bartender Liam Davenport.
    James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Cavitt’s husband has a running joke that every season will be their last.
    Meghan Montemurro, chicagotribune.com, 6 Mar. 2022
  • Part 2 of the running joke is begging for Anunoby to return to the lineup to spare his legs, which have accrued mileage in recent weeks.
    Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 12 Mar. 2024
  • There is a running joke in Glass Onion about Renner's (fictional) private line of hot sauce.
    Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 30 May 2024
  • Smith’s lyrics often don’t map smoothly onto the existing tunes, but this seems to be a running gag.
    Emily McClanathan, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2024
  • One finally suspects that the Whites’ ailments are a running joke.
    Mary Norris, The New Yorker, 7 Jan. 2023
  • The unfinished book became a running joke in the Sherwin household.
    Andy Kifer, New York Times, 11 July 2023
  • The club was never more than a running joke for the two scientists and their friends, who knew San Diego’s climate and setting would draw more and more people.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Mar. 2021
  • The grandchildren eventually joined in on the running joke, Ann Brooks said.
    Dallas News, 3 Oct. 2022
  • The running joke around the offensive meeting room last season was that Parker had the easiest job on staff.
    Tom Noie, USA TODAY, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Last year’s race angered runners, became a running joke in the city and made national headlines.
    Lori Nickel, Journal Sentinel, 25 Mar. 2023
  • There’s a great running joke about David Chang always being on call as Molly’s personal chef.
    Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 12 July 2024
  • Granted, the acknowledgement was a button on a running gag rebelling against the speech police.
    Carol McColgin, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Mar. 2024
  • While Goop may have become a running joke in some circles, some of its products are actually great.
    Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 June 2022
  • Still, the running gag didn’t fully achieve Graham’s goal from 2016, being a Barbie with genuine cellulite.
    Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 25 July 2023
  • The most obvious, my appointment as the paper’s restaurant critic, the second, a running joke.
    Lyndsay C. Green, Detroit Free Press, 18 Dec. 2022

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