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.
  • Clooney might be known as the joker of the two.
    — Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 22 May 2026
  • Mas, though, does have a joker in his deck.
    — Felipe Cardenas, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Nobody makes it without heartache and tears, not even the joker.
    — Tyler Kepner, The Athletic, 16 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • Cohen is a joker back and a valuable chess piece for the offense.
    — Colleen Kane, chicagotribune.com, 27 Aug. 2020
  • 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 joker barb is, no doubt, a reference to being called a clown act.
    — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 29 Oct. 2022
  • These fans were very pleased with the reveal of Lio Rush as the joker.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021
  • This season, however, the team might have proven the jokers to be right.
    — Hayden Grove, cleveland.com, 1 Nov. 2017
  • Imagine trying to slide a book on a table while some joker is pushing down on it.
    — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 20 Sep. 2024
  • This lucky gambler had an 8, 9, 10, jack, queen, king and a joker.
    — Helena Wegner, Sacramento Bee, 20 Jan. 2025
  • The cricket bat sounds like the work of a practical joker, and the plot still thickens.
    — David Warmflash, Discover Magazine, 31 Oct. 2016
  • These jokers are still just hanging out and having the same old drinking parties.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 13 May 2025
  • Students are required to bring two full decks of cards including the jokers.
    — Kris Slugg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Students are required to bring two full decks of cards including the jokers.
    — Kris Slugg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Abu Hamdan, the lead vocalist, was, and still is, a bit of a joker.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
  • Yet Mitchell Robinson, ever the joker, can’t make up his mind.
    — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 23 May 2025
  • 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
  • The game involves a deck of playing cards, including two jokers.
    — Justin Madden, cleveland.com, 11 May 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
  • JaJuan Nile was a joker, a picky eater and his mother's only son.
    — USA Today, 5 Feb. 2023
  • Acquiring a penguin must provide cameos for a joker.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Fools to the left, jokers to the right Could such a mix of policies improve the party’s position?
    — The Economist, 21 Nov. 2019
  • The Mary Kay Letourneau horror story is a joke to these jokers.
    — Armond White, National Review, 10 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • Cameron Sample and joker Patrick Johnson, a pair of seniors, are the book ends.
    — G Smith, NOLA.com, 29 Aug. 2020

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