How to Use good humor in a Sentence

good humor

noun
  • And make sure your other guests can loosen up enough to join in with good humor.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 27 July 2023
  • And Doctorow tells it all in good humor.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
  • On the day, there was good humor and good banter in between takes.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 19 Feb. 2026
  • But Hsu presents it with such good humor that the effect is to cheer her on.
    — Katie Rife, IndieWire, 27 Sep. 2024
  • Scruffy City is a moniker the place holds with equal parts pride and winking good humor.
    — Caroline Rogers, Southern Living, 31 Aug. 2025
  • For Hecht, the snow is just one more thing the city will survive and meet with good humor.
    — Bracey Harris, NBC News, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Enjoy your crowded, carefree days in good health and good humor!
    — R. Eric Thomas, Washington Post, 11 July 2024
  • But many of us will remember him mostly for his spirit and good humor.
    — Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 10 Oct. 2010
  • In the midst of a competitive race, the two men jousted with good humor and grace.
    — John T. Shaw, Twin Cities, 7 Dec. 2025
  • In the midst of a competitive race, the two men jousted with good humor and grace.
    — John T. Shaw, Mercury News, 4 Dec. 2025
  • Such good humor is a salve to the novel’s abiding tragedy of loss and prejudice.
    — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 6 June 2023
  • Regardless of the reason for the trip, Bryan played it off with good humor.
    — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 21 Apr. 2024
  • Meanwhile, Lind looked on in good humor from a few feet away as the costars posed together.
    — Sophie Dodd, Peoplemag, 8 Mar. 2023
  • What this show did seriously show, though, is how good humor can help deal with and beat breast cancer.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
  • The Rabbit convertible sparkles with a good humor not one car in a hundred has.
    — Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Their mission is to save lives while sharing good humor, and belief in victory.
    — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Kristofferson studies the recorder as if its rudeness had restored his own good humor.
    — Tom Burke, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2024
  • The 23-year-old Beckham seemed to take the media frenzy in good humor.
    — Sheena McKenzie, CNN Money, 7 June 2026
  • Is there a better way to handle these types of questions while maintaining some degree of good humor?
    — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2023
  • To Wright, the illness might have explained his father’s eternal good humor.
    — Eric Boodman, Vulture, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Richard Linklater directs this foxy caper with buoyant good humor.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 2 June 2024
  • Few actors have shown his gift for mingling fearlessness with such jubilant good humor.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 20 June 2024
  • Sitting courtside requires some good humor and even better fashion.
    — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Along the way, Delpy steadily weaves her good humor with deeper and darker explorations.
    — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Easygoing, humble, funny, and even to respond with grace and good humor when fans would taunt him about his team’s poor showing.
    — Linda Solomon, Detroit Free Press, 20 Jan. 2024
  • But beneath Cody Bellinger’s good humor Friday were his haunting hands.
    — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Alternatively, the same leader can come into a room with a spirit of good humor, tell a joke and lighten the mood.
    — Mike Weinberger, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The key is to respond in good humor, while gently asserting that this is not behavior that is encouraged.
    — Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 25 Mar. 2025
  • Jimmy Fallon has been blessing the New York Knicks with good humor for decades.
    — Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 8 June 2026
  • The scene unfolds with shambolic good humor, starting with an exchange that sends the company scrambling to sort out who’s who.
    — Rhoda Feng, Vulture, 23 Mar. 2026

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