How to Use funny in a Sentence
- It feels funny to be back here again.
- He's a very funny guy.
- A funny thing happened to me the other day.
- She has some funny ideas about how to run a company.
- He told a funny story.
- My car has been making a funny noise lately.
- It's funny that you should say that—I was just thinking the same thing myself.
- There's something funny going on here.
- What are you laughing at? There's nothing funny about it.
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And how funny that that's the place that turned it all around for me.
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Cnt Editors,
Condé Nast Traveler,
12 Feb. 2024
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The ‘60s were funny ‘cause of all the funny mushrooms and grass.
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Liza Lentini,
Spin,
6 Oct. 2023
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Some of these were funny, and many earned high ratings.
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Kyle Smith,
WSJ,
6 Dec. 2023
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In her case, the early funny stuff led to the later funnier stuff.
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David Remnick,
The New Yorker,
28 Aug. 2023
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In one funny shot, King shared close-ups of the two women’s backsides.
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Charna Flam,
Peoplemag,
28 Nov. 2023
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Our job is to just try to stick to the truth, and whether the truth is perceived as scary or funny, that’s up to the audience.
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Alex Jhamb Burns,
Vogue,
15 Nov. 2023
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This is supposed to be funny, or maybe shocking, in 2024.
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Alphonse Pierre,
Pitchfork,
12 Jan. 2024
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This Uber Eats ad is a fun (if random) play on one of the year’s most genuinely funny memes.
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Emma Specter,
Vogue,
12 Feb. 2024
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Throw it back to Blake circa 2005 with this funny costume idea.
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Taysha Murtaugh,
Country Living,
28 June 2023
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His youngest — a smart, funny, loves-to-sing, light-up-a-room kind of kid — was his fishing and camping buddy.
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Heather Hollingsworth,
Fortune,
11 Apr. 2024
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The gleeful, mischievous delight the Oompa Loompas take in the demise of those kids is so funny.
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Emily Zemler,
Rolling Stone,
11 July 2023
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Very often, someone’s idea of what a thing is can be a funnier, weirder version of what the thing is.
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Vulture,
18 Dec. 2023
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The couple describes their dog as laid back, funny, weird and very human-like.
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Jessica Guay,
CBS News,
3 Jan. 2024
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Carrie, here, is in a funny sort of in-between state, trying to figure out what the rest of her life might look like.
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Daniel D'addario,
Variety,
21 June 2023
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Though there is a funny anecdote where Ben is not happy about being in a tank top.
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Marlow Stern,
Rolling Stone,
28 Nov. 2023
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Yet even with all of that as its foundation, this is a very, very darkly funny show.
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Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
10 Apr. 2024
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Be funny, but don’t overdo it; be heartfelt, but don’t get too heavy.
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Jean Garnett,
The New Yorker,
10 July 2023
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Read ahead to discover a rundown of funny group chat names your squad will love.
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Kori Williams,
Seventeen,
7 July 2023
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There’s a still of them covered in cake for reasons unbeknownst to us but that may be funny and/or cute in the context of the film.
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Vulture,
14 June 2023
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It’s got a lot of indie rock to it, but it’s also got a bit of, in a funny way, K-pop, and some Arab heritage music.
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Nick Vivarelli,
Variety,
19 July 2023
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But a funny thing happened on the way to a Democratic majority.
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David Lauter,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Apr. 2024
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A lot of the plot hinges on him being against-type funny.
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Manohla Dargis, Wesley Morris and A. O. Scott,
New York Times,
18 July 2016
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Funny, tough to make sense of, and since that baloney is real, rotting.
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Christopher Borrelli,
chicagotribune.com,
27 Apr. 2017
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Lulled by the presence of innocents, the president made a couple of mild funnies.
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Kenzie Bryant,
Vanities,
27 Oct. 2017
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Funny, nobody’s asking how much longer the 68-year-old is sticking around anymore.
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Will Graves,
The Seattle Times,
12 June 2017
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Funny, because that’s where this franchise has ended up, too.
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Shawn Windsor,
Detroit Free Press,
24 Aug. 2017
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Funny, then, that the biggest golf tournament win of his youth career would come about eight minutes from his home in Carlsbad.
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Tod Leonard,
sandiegouniontribune.com,
13 July 2017
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Let’s feast on some funnies: A tasty typo turned a U.S. Senate candidate’s name into that of a sandwich.
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Morning Brief,
The Seattle Times,
6 July 2018
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This Netflix look at vulgar language, starring Nicolas Cage, is bust-a-gut funny.
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Willie Brown,
SFChronicle.com,
9 Jan. 2021
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Lewandowski assured her Facebook followers that Quinn later found the melted doll funny and wasn't traumatized at all.
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Jackie Frere,
Redbook,
21 Nov. 2017
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The special featured funny takes on money-hungry televangelists, and a hilarious impression of Ugandan President Idi Amin.
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Matthew Allen,
The Root,
15 Sep. 2017
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The voice will be instantly recognizable as Saundersesque to anyone familiar with his fiction: jocular and often stand-up-comic funny, with a focus on providing joyful surprises with every turn of phrase.
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Lisa Zeidner,
Star Tribune,
8 Feb. 2021
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A lot of the plot hinges on him being against-type funny.
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Manohla Dargis, Wesley Morris and A. O. Scott,
New York Times,
18 July 2016
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Funny, tough to make sense of, and since that baloney is real, rotting.
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Christopher Borrelli,
chicagotribune.com,
27 Apr. 2017
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Lulled by the presence of innocents, the president made a couple of mild funnies.
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Kenzie Bryant,
Vanities,
27 Oct. 2017
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Funny, nobody’s asking how much longer the 68-year-old is sticking around anymore.
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Will Graves,
The Seattle Times,
12 June 2017
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Funny, because that’s where this franchise has ended up, too.
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Shawn Windsor,
Detroit Free Press,
24 Aug. 2017
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Funny, then, that the biggest golf tournament win of his youth career would come about eight minutes from his home in Carlsbad.
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Tod Leonard,
sandiegouniontribune.com,
13 July 2017
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Let’s feast on some funnies: A tasty typo turned a U.S. Senate candidate’s name into that of a sandwich.
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Morning Brief,
The Seattle Times,
6 July 2018
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This Netflix look at vulgar language, starring Nicolas Cage, is bust-a-gut funny.
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Willie Brown,
SFChronicle.com,
9 Jan. 2021
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Lewandowski assured her Facebook followers that Quinn later found the melted doll funny and wasn't traumatized at all.
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Jackie Frere,
Redbook,
21 Nov. 2017
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The special featured funny takes on money-hungry televangelists, and a hilarious impression of Ugandan President Idi Amin.
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Matthew Allen,
The Root,
15 Sep. 2017
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The voice will be instantly recognizable as Saundersesque to anyone familiar with his fiction: jocular and often stand-up-comic funny, with a focus on providing joyful surprises with every turn of phrase.
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Lisa Zeidner,
Star Tribune,
8 Feb. 2021
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