I was only joshing you: it was as calm on that ship as a milk sociable.
She was so set upon a letter from her Charles," she explained, "and now she'll have to know that I was joshing her.
He was greeted by a burst of joshing from Conners and the others, but he scarcely heard it.
Quietly and efficiently he took the first batter in hand, and in spite of the joshing that at once began on the other side, he lured the boy into popping up a little infield fly that was easily smothered by the second baseman.
He heard vaguely the complaining tones of Harry Vedder as he climbed into an upper bunk, and the joshing comment of those who watched the diverting process.
The fellows that composed the rival team were rather older than the average scout and of a certain rough-and-ready type which made their joshing apt to carry more sting than that sort of thing usually does.
I'll miss joshing the fellows awfully when they line up to pay for the buckwheats and.
Cut thatjoshing out," she said, coolly and briskly.
There was not much talk now, and very little joshing or laughter.
At one time they had regarded his aspirations to become a detective with considerable amusement and had taken no little pleasure in joshing him.
I guess I'm kind of spoiled out here--I get to joshing with these cowboys until I don't know anything else.
They mean all right, but they just can't help joshing a man to death.
Of course, she was joshing him, he thought uneasily, as he separated the leaves of his cigarette book by blowing gently upon them, and singled out another paper.
Larry looked at him queerly, as if making up his mind whether the other meant it, or was simply joshing him.
Larry received no end of joshing on account of having slept on his post; Frank even told him that it was considered so serious a matter that men had been stood up against a wall, and shot for allowing the enemy to creep into camp.
Also remarked, as he winked at Longley, that you might be induced to join the big aeroplane makers' trust that was being talked of; but I believed he was just joshing when he said that, Frank.
You're joshing me, I know, George," declared the other.
Jack, good naturedly; for he was used to such joking and joshing on the part of his mates, and ready to take it in the same spirit of fun that it was meant.
I'm justjoshing the weakness of the lemonade the Associations give us.
The low comedian had just finished joshing back and forth with the bleachers, whose chorus work had equalled, in some respects, that on the stage.
He even indulged himself in a bit of joshing with the Mystic.
It was not so much what they said, but it was the fond and familiar tone of their delicatejoshing that indicated a still unbroken confidence between husband and wife.
Great was thejoshing that followed the landing of the two missing boats.
Now, don't go to joshing and pretending you knew we were here, because you didn't.
He explained to his friends that the young author was teaching him to write stories, and their newly acquired respect for Sleuth’s courage prevented them from joshing him much about this.
Springer’s eyes rolled toward the open doorway, through which he longed to dash, being restrained only by fear that such an action would subject him to the joshing of his campmates.
You're only joshing us now, Thad; for how under the sun could you tell such a thing as that?
Carl had a small garden back of the ranch house, in which he had been raising cabbages, devoting all his spare time to them and good-naturedly taking the joshing the boys gave him.
Bud pretended to be angry at the joshing his steed received, but when he had turned his back upon the jokers he would wink gently to himself in a way that would have been puzzling to the supporters of the spotted horse.
It was necessary, however, to tinker a great deal over the machine to keep it in running order, and the joshing flung at him by the Oakdale lads whenever he had a breakdown had been anything but balm to his irritable nature.
Then the boys would get joshing him as to how much start he could give him over the prairie and catch him again.
Apparently the amount of the start given the lunatic depended upon the amount of the bet to which the joshing led up.
That half-portion Bill Taft came joshing me about my beezer till it got something fierce," explained Jerry.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "joshing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
