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verb

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of josh
Verb
Anatole is a painter, an artform which photographer Lucien good-naturedly joshes him will soon be obsolete. Jessica Kiang, Variety, 27 May 2025 See which companies are just joshing on social media — and which one has a real deal for you! Brendan Le, People.com, 1 Apr. 2025 The family joshing and loving is great fun here; both Liss and Montana are terrific, live-wire young performers, thanks surely in part to Alex Mallory’s direction, and Rifai has given them a banquet of vibrant lines. Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 12 Feb. 2025 Hudson’s accordion seems to come strolling in from a sidewalk serenade to meet Helm’s amused, exasperated vocal, joshing him along with countermelodies, trills and wheezily encouraging chords. Jon Pareles, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025 Elwood experiences some of the usual rigors of prison and reform school: the bullying, the joshing around, the discipline, the abuse. K. Austin Collins, The Atlantic, 13 Dec. 2024 Bale, speaking in a bland, hollow voice that has the slightest hint of frat-boy joshing, delivers a piece of polished, satiric archness that goes well beyond the obvious allegorical gag (capitalism = murder) into ... what, exactly? Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 9 Mar. 2024 The movie’s best moments are the ones in which Mary and Paul camp out in front of the TV, drinking whiskey and joshing each other well into the wee hours. Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for josh
Noun
  • Reddit users were quick to flood the post with excitement and jokes.
    Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
  • And being Canadian, people do joke about that.
    Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Just before Thursday’s taping Pence and Emanual met outside the greenroom, and each greeted each other warmly, quickly asking each other questions about their kids before anything else, while kidding with each other about a long unpaid bet.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Okay, kidding about that last part.
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Rob Gibson, Easy Tiger CEO, says comedy is always a tough sell because people are worried about whether the laughs will land.
    Paul Chai, Variety, 11 Oct. 2025
  • The script has eye rolling scenes mixed with laugh out loud moments.
    Bryan West, Nashville Tennessean, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Jay Som is teasing her new album Belong (out Friday) with a song featuring Hayley Williams.
    Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The creative teams tease what's ahead in 2026 from IDW Dark.
    Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Only an Aries, like Lily, can take Barney’s jabs in a joking way.
    Lisa Stardust, PEOPLE, 19 Sep. 2025
  • When Peanut pulled his second escape act, his owners knew where to look and handled Peanut's disappearance in a joking manner.
    Michael Nied, People.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Prices of stocks and bonds, along with long-term interest rates, have oscillated up and down in response to the daily verbal sallies from the White House.
    Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 27 Apr. 2025
  • The most comprehensive sally, of course, is the administration’s drastic and abrupt cut in funding by the National Institutes of Health.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 13 Feb. 2025

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