How to Use humor in a Sentence
- Someday, you'll see the humor in this.
- She doesn't care for ethnic humor.
- Everyone likes the gentle humor of his stories of family life.
- His humor is one of his most attractive qualities.
- He didn't appreciate the humor of the situation.
- The book is a collection of American humor.
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She was drawn to his humor and charm.
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Duaa Eldeib,
ProPublica,
10 Sep. 2025
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Where does humor lie in a frame?
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Katie Campione,
Deadline,
30 May 2026
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Berry notes the show’s dark humor.
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Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
2 Oct. 2025
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His humor is dark, painful, but very present.
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Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Sep. 2025
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Of course, a bit of humor helps us along the way.
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Norman B. Gildin,
Sun Sentinel,
6 Jan. 2026
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There’s many things—there’s a lot of humor.
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Essence,
18 Sep. 2025
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His joy, humor and quick wit bring sparkle to my life.
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Liza Esquibias,
PEOPLE,
19 Jan. 2026
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His joy, humor and quick wit bring sparkle to my life.
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Kimi Robinson,
USA Today,
22 Jan. 2026
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His joy, humor and quick wit bring sparkle to my life.
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Anthony Robledo,
USA Today,
17 Jan. 2026
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His joy, humor and quick wit bring sparkle to my life.
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Stephanie Giang-Paunon,
FOXNews.com,
18 Jan. 2026
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His joy, humor and quick wit bring sparkle to my life.
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Christina Dugan Ramirez , Tracy Wright,
FOXNews.com,
20 Jan. 2026
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There are times and places where humor just doesn't work.
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Anne Sugar,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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But his drama is met with humor and sass.
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Lisa Stardust,
People.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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What was genius about that film was the humor in it.
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Anne Thompson,
IndieWire,
11 Mar. 2026
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Our mother raised us to live with humor in our hearts.
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Literary Hub,
23 Mar. 2026
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His humor is far more hateful than clever at this point.
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Bobby Burack Outkick,
FOXNews.com,
27 Apr. 2026
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That loss shaped his humor, which became both a gift and a shield.
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Lizzie Hyman,
PEOPLE,
4 Oct. 2025
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In fact, there is a great deal of well-meaning dark humor.
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Los Angeles Times,
26 Jan. 2026
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The action is hit or miss, and the humor lands in a lot of scenes.
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Bill Goodykoontz,
The Arizona Republic,
12 June 2023
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If so, that’s a sign your humor isn’t working.
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Anne Sugar,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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Say it with humor, with honesty, with heart.
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Dossé-Via Trenou,
Refinery29,
26 Oct. 2025
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The humor is broad and cozy, like a warm bowl of chicken and dumplings.
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Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
9 Apr. 2026
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Sometimes your humor won't hit, and that's okay.
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Anne Sugar,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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There will be people who just don’t like your humor, and that's okay.
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Anne Sugar,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
- The only way to get along with him is to humor him.
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And then my stylist asked me to humor her and try on a wedding gown.
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Hannah Rimm,
refinery29.com,
11 Apr. 2023
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Many of us would try to humor a major general who held our life in his hands.
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Celia Wren,
Washington Post,
29 Mar. 2023
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But the girl insisted — three times, as in the fairy tale — so her mother checked, to humor her.
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Russell Frank,
New York Times,
31 Oct. 2017
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More to the point, does your boss simply humor her snitching — or encourage it?
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Karla L. Miller,
The Seattle Times,
12 Dec. 2018
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His friends challenged Lau to apply, and to humor them, Lau did just that.
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BostonGlobe.com,
1 June 2021
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The kids were quick to see it as some sort of punishment, and my husband mostly played along to humor me.
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Nina Kokotas Hahn,
Condé Nast Traveler,
15 June 2017
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So as to keep on humoring us, then, maybe Congress should stick around for the summer.
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Elaine Godfrey,
The Atlantic,
23 June 2017
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Fans were humored by Bryan's confession.
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Marina Watts,
People.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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What else can humor do besides add levity to certain dark subjects?
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Aaron Gilbreath,
Longreads,
20 Apr. 2018
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To humor her boss, Spiers assigned a second reporter to the story.
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Vicky Ward,
Esquire,
18 Aug. 2016
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Colum scoffs at her offer, claiming that their father only humored Ellen.
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Lincee Ray Published,
EW.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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Sam humors him, reluctantly plinking out a tune on her keyboard.
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Barbara Vandenburgh,
azcentral,
14 June 2018
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That wasn't the case for my more cautious 14-year-old, who kindly braved the Boomerang mostly to humor her sister.
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Amy Schwabe,
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,
19 July 2019
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Todd humored me, even taking a few photos on Humpback Rock, but there were no further hiking pit stops.
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Brian Underwood,
Women's Health,
13 July 2023
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But amid these horrors, humor me in my small protest against Comcast and Altitude Sports.
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Dp Opinion,
The Denver Post,
15 Nov. 2019
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In a live interview, Jimmy Kimmel asked Aniston to humor him in a huge way.
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Kevin Jacobsen,
Entertainment Weekly,
23 Sep. 2025
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Jane denies Mary Louise’s request for a paternity test, but does humor her with a coffee date.
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Morgan Baila,
refinery29.com,
14 June 2019
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O’Connor, strong and good-humored, is partially disabled by cerebral palsy.
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Mike Sager,
Smithsonian,
29 July 2017
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Late Tuesday night, Chrissy Teigen tweeted a question many of us have humored before.
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Lindsey Lanquist,
SELF,
21 Feb. 2018
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Though hundreds of fans found the post to be entertaining, Delilah Belle, on the other hand, was not humored in the slightest.
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Joelle Goldstein,
PEOPLE.com,
19 June 2019
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Everyone who knew Cornell in those early years describes him as kind and good-humored, but also somewhat distant.
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Mark Yarm,
Billboard,
25 May 2017
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Meanwhile, Gigi's expression suggests she's humored by Zayn's attempt to kiss her.
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Elizabeth Narins,
Cosmopolitan,
14 Mar. 2018
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The younger Lakers have been good about humoring him, at least until Julius Randle drew a line in the sand during the Warriors game.
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Andrew Sharp,
SI.com,
16 Mar. 2018
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Despite this, Mattis seems to be humoring the president’s demands and coming up with some options to fund the border wall through the military.
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Tara Golshan,
Vox,
30 Mar. 2018
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During a composer’s lifetime, even from one performance to the next, an opera might undergo changes to accommodate a singer who couldn’t hit a high note, or to humor a diva who could.
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Emily Langer,
Washington Post,
16 June 2017
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Coming on the heels of a price increase for customers who suddenly had to pay for two services instead of one, subscribers were in no mood to humor the whimsical name and lambasted it online.
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Mae Anderson,
USA TODAY,
30 Oct. 2021
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Most lawmakers were far less ruthless but were clearly only humoring DeSantis.
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Alex Shephard,
The New Republic,
19 Apr. 2023
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The 2-year-old black domestic shorthair kitty is said to possess a natural cleverness and is always full of cute antics that humor everyone around him.
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Arizona Republic,
azcentral,
25 Oct. 2019
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Goldwyn might have been humoring Busch by agreeing to watch the newsreels in a private screening room at his studio in West Hollywood.
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Richard Sandomir,
SI.com,
21 June 2017
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