Use humor in a sentence | example usage from the newswires

Vocabulary

Editorial »

How to use the word humor in a Sentence? Page #8

Sample usage from literary quotes and the newswire.

Filter by category:

280 results found

I loved him like a brother. We will all miss his humor, his talent, and his capacity to love. – William Shatner	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Leonard Nimoy showed a young, nerdy, bullied me that not only could science be important and valued, but it could literally save entire ships, planets, and galaxies of lives, as I grew up, he taught me that reason could be tempered with humor. That learned adults still had more to learn. That feminism and opposing prejudice was vital. And that there is no age too late to reinvent yourself. – Paul Roth	Found on CNN 9 years ago
You went from hysterical to just laughing, during the panic attack, the only way I could harness my thoughts was to focus on humor. – Chris Tells All	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
He had a whimsical, fey sense of humor and he brought a lot to 'Laugh-In' in the way of thoughts, words and jokes. – George Schlatter	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
We both live and breathe geek culture and connected over that right away. You have to know how to have fun and have a sense of humor about it, as a bride-to-be you can get lost in what tradition and magazines tell you, but it's important to stay true to who you are as a couple. It's your love, nobody else's and that's what matters. – Valerie White	Found on CNN 9 years ago
I haven't spoken to Miss Lee directly about this. And not many people have, except for her agent and lawyer, but I did meet her two and a half years ago at a writer's conference, and she was in great humor. And sharp and very much in the spirit of the event. So I don't question her ability make a judgment about this. – Mary McDonagh Murphy	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
I haven't spoken to Harper Lee directly about this. And not many people have, except for Harper Lee agent and lawyer, but I did meet Harper Lee two and a half years ago at a writer's conference, and Harper Lee was in great humor. And sharp and very much in the spirit of the event. So I don't question Harper Lee ability make a judgment about this. – Mary McDonagh Murphy	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
There is so much wonderful humor here, balanced with a lot of action, it's a fresh take on heroism and what it means to be a hero. That book is pulled off so beautifully. – Teri Lesesne	Found on CNN 9 years ago
I can relate to someone whose life is falling apart, and they are doing the best to get by, using humor to survive, backstrom really wears his heart on his sleeve and his life is unraveling… I would much rather hang out with that person than a slick procedural detective who has all the answers… it’s human, it’s frail, it’s interesting. – Rainn Wilson	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
We need to remember that smile, that personality and that one-of-a-kind sense of humor. – Brad Paisley	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It's very clear to me that the North Koreans don't have a sense of humor. – James Clapper	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Jack Nicholson'd go,' Well, why not ? That's great. Bye, Toots,' and off he goes, i'd be kind of left in the dust like,' What happened ?' And so I had to negotiate that, and it was extremely hard at first. Then you develop more of a sense of humor about it. – Anjelica Huston	Found on CNN 9 years ago
I met him two or three times, He was a very funny guy. He always had a good sense of humor. – Dr John's	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion. – Thomas Browne	added by anonymous 9 years ago
There are two insults no human will endure. The assertion that he has no sense of humor and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble. – Sinclair Lewis	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important. – Ludwig Wittgenstein	added by anonymous 9 years ago
The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit. – William Temple	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice. – David Seabury	added by anonymous 10 years ago
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers – Leo Rosten	added by acronimous 10 years ago
If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal. – Enid Bagnold	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore. – Malcolm Muggeridge	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it. – Umberto Eco	added by anonymous 10 years ago
That is the saving grace of humor. If you fail no one is laughing at you. – A. Whitney Brown	added by acronimous 10 years ago

I loved him like a brother. We will all miss his humor, his talent, and his capacity to love.

– William Shatner

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Leonard Nimoy showed a young, nerdy, bullied me that not only could science be important and valued, but it could literally save entire ships, planets, and galaxies of lives, as I grew up, he taught me that reason could be tempered with humor. That learned adults still had more to learn. That feminism and opposing prejudice was vital. And that there is no age too late to reinvent yourself.

– Paul Roth

Found on CNN
9 years ago

You went from hysterical to just laughing, during the panic attack, the only way I could harness my thoughts was to focus on humor.

– Chris Tells All

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

He had a whimsical, fey sense of humor and he brought a lot to 'Laugh-In' in the way of thoughts, words and jokes.

– George Schlatter

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

We both live and breathe geek culture and connected over that right away. You have to know how to have fun and have a sense of humor about it, as a bride-to-be you can get lost in what tradition and magazines tell you, but it's important to stay true to who you are as a couple. It's your love, nobody else's and that's what matters.

– Valerie White

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I haven't spoken to Miss Lee directly about this. And not many people have, except for her agent and lawyer, but I did meet her two and a half years ago at a writer's conference, and she was in great humor. And sharp and very much in the spirit of the event. So I don't question her ability make a judgment about this.

– Mary McDonagh Murphy

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I haven't spoken to Harper Lee directly about this. And not many people have, except for Harper Lee agent and lawyer, but I did meet Harper Lee two and a half years ago at a writer's conference, and Harper Lee was in great humor. And sharp and very much in the spirit of the event. So I don't question Harper Lee ability make a judgment about this.

– Mary McDonagh Murphy

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

There is so much wonderful humor here, balanced with a lot of action, it's a fresh take on heroism and what it means to be a hero. That book is pulled off so beautifully.

– Teri Lesesne

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I can relate to someone whose life is falling apart, and they are doing the best to get by, using humor to survive, backstrom really wears his heart on his sleeve and his life is unraveling… I would much rather hang out with that person than a slick procedural detective who has all the answers… it’s human, it’s frail, it’s interesting.

– Rainn Wilson

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

We need to remember that smile, that personality and that one-of-a-kind sense of humor.

– Brad Paisley

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It's very clear to me that the North Koreans don't have a sense of humor.

– James Clapper

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Jack Nicholson'd go,' Well, why not ? That's great. Bye, Toots,' and off he goes, i'd be kind of left in the dust like,' What happened ?' And so I had to negotiate that, and it was extremely hard at first. Then you develop more of a sense of humor about it.

– Anjelica Huston

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I met him two or three times, He was a very funny guy. He always had a good sense of humor.

– Dr John's

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

– Thomas Browne

added by anonymous
9 years ago

There are two insults no human will endure. The assertion that he has no sense of humor and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.

– Sinclair Lewis

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.

– Ludwig Wittgenstein

added by anonymous
9 years ago

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

– William Temple