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Example sentences for "little joke"

  • They were laid shallow enough to have bumped both sloops and destroyers, and the exploding of a mine against the bows of one or the other of these may well have been the first warning we had of Fritz's little joke.

  • Fritz is trying to play a little joke on us by making us think he is lying blown-up on the bottom, while, in fact, he is probably lying off somewhere waiting to slip a slug into one of the most likely looking of the salvage ships.

  • You see I played a little joke on you this afternoon and eloped with a handsomer man than you.

  • And I need some plumbers' tools, as well, for a little joke I am to play on one of my friends.

  • But you're guessing wrong, for she has nothing to do with my little joke.

  • I had considered them as part of Tempest's little joke.

  • You see, my heart had grown tender towards them since the day before, so I thought I would have a little joke at the family--I would tease the fatherly heart of Fedosey Nikolaitch.

  • But that was a little joke, Fedosey Nikolaitch!

  • It was a little joke on our part," she admitted, sinking into a chair and holding her handkerchief to her face.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    little afraid; little ashamed; little boiling; little bunch; little child; little drop; little excitement; little exclamation; little finger; little food; little forward; little groups; little lighter; little like; little missie; little niece; little over; little pony; little present; little reflection; little spirits; little stream; little warm; little wistfully; particular subject; slavery were