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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