How to Use ha in a Sentence

  • ha! I was right all along!
  • Some notes (ha): David’s hands-on look at the new Samsung Galaxy Note 8.
    Michael Calore, WIRED, 25 Aug. 2017
  • The joke, ha ha ha, is that these actual women looked like men in drag.
    Helen Shaw, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2021
  • Ha ha, no, not at all—although my red running shoes may have been guilty of a fashion crime.
    Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 28 Oct. 2020
  • At the end of a long, cold Texas winter (ha), is there anything better than seeing the bluebonnets start to poke out of the ground?
    Abigail Rosenthal, Chron, 27 Oct. 2020
  • If big, punchy chai spice isn’t your cup of tea (ha!), try Vahdam’s fragrant Saffron Masala Chai instead.
    Sonia Chopra, Bon Appétit, 26 Apr. 2022
  • And while some were quick to joke that the Swiss cheese-like fashion mirrored our mental state after a year in the pandemic (hanging by the thread — ha.
    Irina Grechko, refinery29.com, 24 Mar. 2021
  • Meanwhile, questions, suggestions and fan letters (ha!) to mschneider@variety.com, and your hot tips as well!
    Michael Schneider, Variety, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Ha, says I. Dogs are great, people are idiots, but history is so cool.
    Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 9 June 2017
  • While not a straightforward (ha) romance, this film deftly explores the value of honesty and self-love.
    Lindsay Lee Wallace, SELF, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Ha ha, sorry everyone—that was an inside joke between me and . . .
    Eli Coyote Mandel, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2022
  • As season six of the Outlander show is currently airing on Starz, now's the perfect time (ha) to dive into time travel books.
    Emily Burack, Town & Country, 20 Mar. 2022
  • Joe Exotic isn’t the type to mope around after a paramour dumps him for a bright (ha!) future in butthole lighteners.
    Joan Kubicek, Vulture, 20 Nov. 2021
  • Funny things — not funny ha-ha, funny strange — happen when an Atlanta Braves pitching coach leaves here.
    Mark Bradley, ajc, 14 June 2017
  • Jimmy and Harry continued on with the interview after Jimmy came back to life (ha) and all was back to business as usual.
    Brianna Wiest, Teen Vogue, 20 July 2017
  • Posted by the series, the playful promo clip below recalls their first time sharing a milkshake, playing darts, and robbing a bank (ha!).
    Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 16 June 2022
  • Great memories with my little brother Donnie and my disapproving older brother Brian, ha!
    Justin Raystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2022
  • The muscles required to fasten buttons and other complicated garment closures atrophied many moons ago, along with our ability to make polite conversation and shower on the reg. Not that those pants actually fit — ha!
    Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2021

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