Examples of in-joke in a Sentence
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That provides a winking in-joke for domestic audiences in his casting here as another shrink, Celeste, the title character’s despondent father, who generally has his head too deep in books to look at life.
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David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Sep. 2023
Stephanie Hsu plays the woman and Crazy Rich Asians‘ Ronny Chieng plays the husband makes the in-joke that much funnier.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 3 Aug. 2023
Or the in-joke nod to Beetlejuice, a comparative reference which does this movie zero favors.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 26 July 2023
To live here is to be in a never-ending conspiratorial conversation, with weird asides, in-jokes, unsolicited advice and unanticipated encouragement.
—Dodai Stewart, New York Times, 26 June 2023
Yes, there are in-jokes and references to how this timeline differs from ours, along with Easter eggs, some cat’s-out-the-bag cameos courtesy of a crisis on infinite earths, and a few secrets that are best kept as secrets.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 6 June 2023
Fewer still will have the PhD-level familiarity with his filmography to appreciate all the in-jokes to his oeuvre, which builds to a feel-good reunion of actors from the real-life Moretti’s previous movies.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 24 May 2023
Perhaps that mall entrance was a little in-joke?
—John Kelly, Washington Post, 17 Apr. 2023
The title of the first full-length boygenius album, like many aspects of the band’s fledgling lore, is a playful little in-joke that functions as both a wink and a provocation.
—Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2023
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David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Sep. 2023
Stephanie Hsu plays the woman and Crazy Rich Asians‘ Ronny Chieng plays the husband makes the in-joke that much funnier.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 3 Aug. 2023
Or the in-joke nod to Beetlejuice, a comparative reference which does this movie zero favors.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 26 July 2023
To live here is to be in a never-ending conspiratorial conversation, with weird asides, in-jokes, unsolicited advice and unanticipated encouragement.
—Dodai Stewart, New York Times, 26 June 2023
Yes, there are in-jokes and references to how this timeline differs from ours, along with Easter eggs, some cat’s-out-the-bag cameos courtesy of a crisis on infinite earths, and a few secrets that are best kept as secrets.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 6 June 2023
Fewer still will have the PhD-level familiarity with his filmography to appreciate all the in-jokes to his oeuvre, which builds to a feel-good reunion of actors from the real-life Moretti’s previous movies.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 24 May 2023
Perhaps that mall entrance was a little in-joke?
—John Kelly, Washington Post, 17 Apr. 2023
The title of the first full-length boygenius album, like many aspects of the band’s fledgling lore, is a playful little in-joke that functions as both a wink and a provocation.
—Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2023
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First Known Use
1964, in the meaning defined above
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“In-joke.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in-joke. Accessed 25 Sep. 2023.
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