How to Use running joke/gag in a Sentence

running joke/gag

noun

• The Chiefs star was a good sport about the running joke.
  — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 19 Sep. 2023
• By the end of the tour, telling Tupac to calm down had become a running joke.
  — Staci Robinson, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2023
• That mountain lion one, that's the one that is a running joke.
  — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 2 July 2024
• The running joke was that my mom looked at my dad to become pregnant.
  — Susie Kantar-Cohen, Glamour, 22 Oct. 2020
• In her one-woman show, there’s a running joke that Kate Berlant cannot cry on cue.
  — Seija Rankin, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2024
• Paid in Full was always the name of the album because that was our running joke.
  — Kyle Eustice, SPIN, 27 Feb. 2024
• The running joke of his lovers stealing his things is the movie’s most enjoyable facet.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 12 Sep. 2024
• And for months, there was a running joke about whether Kamala was even showing up to do her job.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2023
• The final name came from a running joke between the band and Chris Adamson, the roadie whose voice opens the album.
  — Al Shipley, SPIN, 24 Mar. 2023
• The show’s failure to cast an Asian lead, until now, has become a running joke among fans.
  — Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024
• And Davis made the confusion between him and his alter ego a running joke.
  — Alex Bhattacharji, Rolling Stone, 4 Aug. 2024
• Soon, the idea of opening a bar became a running joke among his social circle.
  — Amanda Yeager, Baltimore Sun, 12 Jan. 2024
• The couple’s son is a running joke in the sequel as Gus (Michael Constantine) tries to marry him off.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 26 Oct. 2023
• There’s a running gag, for instance, about Leaphorn and Manuelito’s disdain for Chee’s new polyester leisure suit.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 30 July 2023
• The running joke that’s had a lot of truth to it is that KU is a men’s basketball school, due to the program’s football history.
  — Michael Haag, Dallas News, 20 Oct. 2022
• In a running joke, the band kept up their banter with bartender Liam Davenport.
  — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Mar. 2023
• Cavitt’s husband has a running joke that every season will be their last.
  — Meghan Montemurro, chicagotribune.com, 6 Mar. 2022
• Part 2 of the running joke is begging for Anunoby to return to the lineup to spare his legs, which have accrued mileage in recent weeks.
  — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 12 Mar. 2024
• There is a running joke in Glass Onion about Renner's (fictional) private line of hot sauce.
  — Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 30 May 2024
• Smith’s lyrics often don’t map smoothly onto the existing tunes, but this seems to be a running gag.
  — Emily McClanathan, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2024
• One finally suspects that the Whites’ ailments are a running joke.
  — Mary Norris, The New Yorker, 7 Jan. 2023
• The unfinished book became a running joke in the Sherwin household.
  — Andy Kifer, New York Times, 11 July 2023
• The club was never more than a running joke for the two scientists and their friends, who knew San Diego’s climate and setting would draw more and more people.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Mar. 2021
• The grandchildren eventually joined in on the running joke, Ann Brooks said.
  — Dallas News, 3 Oct. 2022
• The running joke around the offensive meeting room last season was that Parker had the easiest job on staff.
  — Tom Noie, USA TODAY, 25 Aug. 2023
• Last year’s race angered runners, became a running joke in the city and made national headlines.
  — Lori Nickel, Journal Sentinel, 25 Mar. 2023
• There’s a great running joke about David Chang always being on call as Molly’s personal chef.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 12 July 2024
• Granted, the acknowledgement was a button on a running gag rebelling against the speech police.
  — Carol McColgin, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Mar. 2024
• While Goop may have become a running joke in some circles, some of its products are actually great.
  — Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 June 2022
• Back then, a running gag had it that Congo’s constitution included a mythical Article 15: Débrouillez-vous (Deal with it).
  — Stuart A. Reid, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2017

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024