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She didn't understand the punch line.
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Airplane food has long been a punch line, and in recent years, airlines across the globe have been working to overhaul their food and beverage offerings.
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Bailey Berg, AFAR Media, 10 Mar. 2025
He was treated as a stand-alone punch line about wooden acting, to the point where a satirical stage version of Point Break that premiered two years earlier cast an audience member, reading off cue cards, to play Reeves’s part.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2025
Detroit finally has an exciting Pistons team to cheer for after spending the last several seasons as an NBA punch line.
—Joe Guillen, Axios, 4 Mar. 2025
The Chargers had become a nationwide punch line and a mirage of what the Spanos family, which owns the team, had imagined after ditching San Diego following the 2016 season.
—Jay Paris, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
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Bailey Berg, AFAR Media, 10 Mar. 2025
He was treated as a stand-alone punch line about wooden acting, to the point where a satirical stage version of Point Break that premiered two years earlier cast an audience member, reading off cue cards, to play Reeves’s part.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2025
Detroit finally has an exciting Pistons team to cheer for after spending the last several seasons as an NBA punch line.
—Joe Guillen, Axios, 4 Mar. 2025
The Chargers had become a nationwide punch line and a mirage of what the Spanos family, which owns the team, had imagined after ditching San Diego following the 2016 season.
—Jay Paris, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for punch line
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“Punch line.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/punch%20line. Accessed 22 Mar. 2025.
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