sense of humor
noun phrase
: a personality that gives someone the ability to say funny things and see the funny side of things
Examples of sense of humor in a Sentence
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The airline, at the time, had said that the attendant was having a moment of fun and expressing her sense of humor.
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Saman Shafiq, USA TODAY, 10 May 2024
Hogle's books are as spritely as a perfect spring day, packed with genuine heartache, deep romanticism, and a fanciful sense of humor.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 9 May 2024
But Albini came to make noise — as a punk guitarist, as a producer, as a writer —with rock’s most notoriously savage sense of humor.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 9 May 2024
And my dad had a really dry, silly, just crazy sense of humor.
—Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 8 May 2024
And he’s also got a really good sense of humor as well.
—Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2024
Boy Mom/Girl Mom Candle This one’s for the candle-loving parent with a sense of humor.
—Kaitlin Stanford, Parents, 6 May 2024
Though Swift wallows in her heartbreak, her self-deprecating sense of humor has never been more acute, and there’s a bubbling undercurrent of resentment at her own fame that’s compelling and even strangely relatable.
—Al Shipley, SPIN, 5 May 2024
Tell each other the five movies, memories, people, comic strips, books, or whatever that have, over your life, best defined your sense of humor.
—Amy Rose Spiegel, SELF, 2 May 2024
Saman Shafiq, USA TODAY, 10 May 2024
Hogle's books are as spritely as a perfect spring day, packed with genuine heartache, deep romanticism, and a fanciful sense of humor.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 9 May 2024
But Albini came to make noise — as a punk guitarist, as a producer, as a writer —with rock’s most notoriously savage sense of humor.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 9 May 2024
And my dad had a really dry, silly, just crazy sense of humor.
—Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 8 May 2024
And he’s also got a really good sense of humor as well.
—Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2024
Boy Mom/Girl Mom Candle This one’s for the candle-loving parent with a sense of humor.
—Kaitlin Stanford, Parents, 6 May 2024
Though Swift wallows in her heartbreak, her self-deprecating sense of humor has never been more acute, and there’s a bubbling undercurrent of resentment at her own fame that’s compelling and even strangely relatable.
—Al Shipley, SPIN, 5 May 2024
Tell each other the five movies, memories, people, comic strips, books, or whatever that have, over your life, best defined your sense of humor.
—Amy Rose Spiegel, SELF, 2 May 2024
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