HUMOR in a Sentence

Learn HUMOR from example sentences, some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

For HUMOR, below is one of 146 sentences:
There was a cool recklessness in his face and a cynical humor in his mouth as he smiled at her, and Scarlett caught her breath.

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 Meanings and Examples of HUMOR
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
humor
 n.  the ability to find things funny
 v.  do what someone wants so that they do not become upset
Classic Sentence: (120 in 9 pages)
1  But only from life could Ellen's face have acquired its look of pride that had no haughtiness, its graciousness, its melancholy and its utter lack of humor.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  His tall brothers were a grim, quiet lot, in whom the family tradition of past glories, lost forever, rankled in unspoken hate and crackled out in bitter humor.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  But Gerald had known poverty, and he could never learn to lose money with good humor or good grace.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
4  "That's all you know," said Scarlett, putting out her tongue and refusing to lose her good humor.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
5  There was a cool recklessness in his face and a cynical humor in his mouth as he smiled at her, and Scarlett caught her breath.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
6  War romances, war weddings, deaths in hospitals and on the field, incidents of camp and battle and march, gallantry, cowardice, humor, sadness, deprivation and hope.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
7  His voice was soft but there was a vibrant note in it, and looking up into his dark face she saw in it none of the skepticism, the jeering humor she knew so well.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
8  Women were such funny little creatures and it never hurt to humor their small whims.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
9  "Don't be impudent," said Scarlett coldly, for she saw little humor in Tommy's remark.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
10  She was relieved to see his mood pass and good humor apparently return, so she smiled too.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
11  But she did not possess his sense of humor which tempered his malice, nor his smile that jeered at himself even while he was jeering others.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
12  She would not humor her by leaving a lamp burning in the nursery, for then Wade and Ella would be unable to sleep.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
13  She gets this way because you humor her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
14  He was bitter now, where he had been pleasantly jeering, brutal where his thrusts had once been tempered with humor.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LX
15  I'm sure we can all see that you have a perfectly corking sense of humor.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
Example Sentence: (26 in 2 pages)
1  He has his own brand of humor and always brings laugh for us.
2  I like to give names that either illustrate the character or are wildly misappropriate for the sake of humor.
3  Accept that you're a pimple and try to keep a lively sense of humor about it.
4  His humor lacked the light touch; his jokes were always ponderous.
5  He was in an expansive humor, cheerfully urging his guests to join in the Christmas feast.
6  He'd been slim with a full head of wavy Black-Irish hair and a certain flair for fashion and humor.
7  The sardonic humor of nightclub comedians who satirize or ridicule patrons in the audience strikes some people as amusing and others as rude.
8  The humor of cartoonist Gary Trudeau often is satirical; through the comments of the Doonesbury characters, Trudeau ridicules political corruption and folly.
9  Even if you're only a freshman, it's no compliment to be told your humor is sophomoric.
10  I attack politicians with the one weapon they don't have, a sense of humor.
11  This is a film full of humor.
12  Colleagues today recall with humor how meetings would crawl into the early morning hours.
13  A sense of humor is a great asset in this business.
14  He has no sense of humor.
15  He was accused of having no sense of humor, of not being a good sport.