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Examples of joking

joking

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Joking about frailty was also a means of acknowledging the presence of death.
There are many joking references to her in the sessions, although the adolescents knew that she would hear these remarks.
Among the staff, humor and joking together provided a means of negotiating the tension around hierarchical differences.
Such alliances can be explained in terms of friendship, joking relationships or relationships between a ' maternal uncle ' and a ' nephew ' (madeb-arbile).%!
Joking leads to jealousy, jealousy leads to rows and rows ruin schedules.
All were widowed and would spend days together cooking outside for their grandchildren, gossiping and joking with one another.
Affective speech activities may include teasing, praise, joking, and ridiculing, to name only a few.
In the case of carework, joking was largely used as a means of easing situations that were otherwise embarrassing.
No doubt the narrator is joking with mock-grandiosity about the possibility of the cook's hair showing up on his dinner plate.
Officers had to share uniforms, those left behind joking that they had to stay in bed until their trousers were returned.
Joking and joke making constituted the most common form of defence and social control.
When committing scale errors, children appear to be completely serious, with no indication of pretense or joking.
Men, on the other hand, utilize the genres of 'visiting', 'joking', and 'telling stories', but do not 'gossip', at these same public events.
They became relaxed and playful, joking with each other and harmlessly teasing the birds.
Too many ties had been forged- educational, occupational, marital-with villagers within the district to permit such joking.
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