How to Use joker in a Sentence

joker

noun

• Jokers are wild in this game.
• Some joker hit our car.
• I can't believe I let that joker beat me.
• These fans were very pleased with the reveal of Lio Rush as the joker.
  — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021
• In games of Top Trumps, the V12 might have been king, but a rotary was a joker, a wild card.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 13 Nov. 2023
• Will the spinning wheel stop on big money or the joker?
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Aug. 2023
• Don't mind the Cadillac CT4-V, shown here on its joker lap.
  — Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 26 Dec. 2021
• That little joker said bloop and floated right on up to the top of the water.
  — Alexandria Hein, Fox News, 26 Apr. 2018
• Does someone else become the joker or the tough guy when the cameras are off?
  — Adam Rathe, Town & Country, 21 Feb. 2017
• The cricket bat sounds like the work of a practical joker, and the plot still thickens.
  — David Warmflash, Discover Magazine, 31 Oct. 2016
• But Trump went back and forth this way for months, a joker shrugging off prudes who didn’t get it.
  — Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2017
• This season, however, the team might have proven the jokers to be right.
  — Hayden Grove, cleveland.com, 1 Nov. 2017
• Ibrahimovic has always come across as a bit of a joker.
  — SI.com, 17 June 2018
• The next in line was David, a tall, blond joker who’d start his career tag-teaming with Kevin.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 20 Dec. 2023
• Who needs April Fools' Day when I'm surrounded by jokers like you all the time?
  — Jamie Ballard, Country Living, 31 Mar. 2023
• The joker barb is, no doubt, a reference to being called a clown act.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 29 Oct. 2022
• Those jokers in the House couldn’t get their act together!
  — Reihan Salam, Slate Magazine, 11 May 2017
• Cameron Sample and joker Patrick Johnson, a pair of seniors, are the book ends.
  — G Smith, NOLA.com, 29 Aug. 2020
• Fools to the left, jokers to the right Could such a mix of policies improve the party’s position?
  — The Economist, 21 Nov. 2019
• There is no sting in its tail, no joker in its pack, no treble in its sonics.
  — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2018
• The Mary Kay Letourneau horror story is a joke to these jokers.
  — Armond White, National Review, 10 Jan. 2024
• The Queen of Hearts game board typically consists of a deck of 52 cards plus two jokers.
  — Robert McCoppin, chicagotribune.com, 22 June 2018
• One day, as the ship sailed toward Japan, Nowatzki and a buddy of his went from jokers to jokees.
  — Gary Peterson, The Mercury News, 25 Apr. 2017
• If Ethridge wasn’t so good at this, he could be dismissed as a joker, a provocateur.
  — Vince Aletti, The New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2022
• JaJuan Nile was a joker, a picky eater and his mother's only son.
  — USA Today, 5 Feb. 2023
• Around the firehouse, Butrim was known as a practical joker.
  — Lilly Price, baltimoresun.com, 2 Feb. 2022
• The once fun, mischievous practical joker now is a recluse.
  — Sun-Sentinel.com, 5 Feb. 2018
• However, the cost of living has risen in Seattle since the olden days, and these jokers are making about the same salary.
  — Lincee Ray, EW.com, 5 May 2023
• Maybe what these jokers need is for a bunch of angry grannies to show up on Election Day and drag every one of them out of office by their ears.
  — Joseph Gerth, The Courier-Journal, 11 Apr. 2018
• Samuels’ first impression of Schneider was a joker who wanted things done his way.
  — Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 16 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024