How to Use joker in a Sentence

joker

noun
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  • These fans were very pleased with the reveal of Lio Rush as the joker.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021
  • In games of Top Trumps, the V12 might have been king, but a rotary was a joker, a wild card.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Will the spinning wheel stop on big money or the joker?
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Aug. 2023
  • Don't mind the Cadillac CT4-V, shown here on its joker lap.
    — Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 26 Dec. 2021
  • That little joker said bloop and floated right on up to the top of the water.
    — Alexandria Hein, Fox News, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Does someone else become the joker or the tough guy when the cameras are off?
    — Adam Rathe, Town & Country, 21 Feb. 2017
  • The cricket bat sounds like the work of a practical joker, and the plot still thickens.
    — David Warmflash, Discover Magazine, 31 Oct. 2016
  • But Trump went back and forth this way for months, a joker shrugging off prudes who didn’t get it.
    — Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2017
  • This season, however, the team might have proven the jokers to be right.
    — Hayden Grove, cleveland.com, 1 Nov. 2017
  • Ibrahimovic has always come across as a bit of a joker.
    — SI.com, 17 June 2018
  • The next in line was David, a tall, blond joker who’d start his career tag-teaming with Kevin.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Who needs April Fools' Day when I'm surrounded by jokers like you all the time?
    — Jamie Ballard, Country Living, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The joker barb is, no doubt, a reference to being called a clown act.
    — Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 29 Oct. 2022
  • Those jokers in the House couldn’t get their act together!
    — Reihan Salam, Slate Magazine, 11 May 2017
  • Cameron Sample and joker Patrick Johnson, a pair of seniors, are the book ends.
    — G Smith, NOLA.com, 29 Aug. 2020
  • Fools to the left, jokers to the right Could such a mix of policies improve the party’s position?
    — The Economist, 21 Nov. 2019
  • There is no sting in its tail, no joker in its pack, no treble in its sonics.
    — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2018
  • The Queen of Hearts game board typically consists of a deck of 52 cards plus two jokers.
    — Robert McCoppin, chicagotribune.com, 22 June 2018
  • One day, as the ship sailed toward Japan, Nowatzki and a buddy of his went from jokers to jokees.
    — Gary Peterson, The Mercury News, 25 Apr. 2017
  • If Ethridge wasn’t so good at this, he could be dismissed as a joker, a provocateur.
    — Vince Aletti, The New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2022
  • JaJuan Nile was a joker, a picky eater and his mother's only son.
    — USA Today, 5 Feb. 2023
  • Around the firehouse, Butrim was known as a practical joker.
    — Lilly Price, baltimoresun.com, 2 Feb. 2022
  • The once fun, mischievous practical joker now is a recluse.
    — Sun-Sentinel.com, 5 Feb. 2018
  • However, the cost of living has risen in Seattle since the olden days, and these jokers are making about the same salary.
    — Lincee Ray, EW.com, 5 May 2023
  • Maybe what these jokers need is for a bunch of angry grannies to show up on Election Day and drag every one of them out of office by their ears.
    — Joseph Gerth, The Courier-Journal, 11 Apr. 2018
  • Some of his allies miss the old Zelensky, the practical joker with the boyish smile.
    — Time, 7 Dec. 2022
  • The game involves a deck of playing cards, including two jokers.
    — Justin Madden, cleveland.com, 11 May 2018
  • My grandma would keep score with a notepad and neat cursive, listing each of seven rounds, our scores and a star when someone got a joker.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 21 Nov. 2020
  • The cancer cabal, Nic said, and the doctor flicked his eyes at her in recognition: another joker in the room.
    — Lauren Groff, The Atlantic, 14 Jan. 2020
  • If the 2020 Democratic primary race is starting to feel a bit like a clown car, then there’s great news: one of the latest Dems to throw his hat in is quite the joker.
    — Lucy Diavolo, Teen Vogue, 9 Apr. 2019

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