
These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'punch line.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. 2022 Special teams coach Cam Achord cannot be in charge of that punch line of a unit anymore. 2022 Again, Forte masters the tricky balance between repetition, variation, and punctuation, with cuts to stock-footage explosions serving as the inevitable, and always perfectly timed, punch line. 2022 The Cowboys need a victory to continue to stay on Philadelphia’s tail, to catch New York and to surpass Washington in an NFC East that will no longer serve as the punch line to jokes. 2023 Micucci, Stevens, and co-star Martin Starr are all quite fun, but the joke loses all momentum on its way to a gruesome punch line. Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2023 As a nonbinary person, Smith has been treated as a punch line by right-wing media. 2022 How could someone who lives in a city that doubles as a Fox News punch line - and who was a former board member of the ACLU and campaign contributor to Kamala Harris - lead the GOP? - Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Jan. Punchline (1988) (300) 5. 2023 On one hand, the utterance is a punch line, unexpected and sharp, just like the book’s title. The appeal of My Hero Academia made this anime go beyond the world.

This anime is so successful that it has collected over 300,000 monthly searches. This is an anime suitable for those who love Marvel and DC heroes. Nathan Goldman, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. My Hero Academia is an anime based on the manga by Kohei Horikoshi, published in 2014. Recent Examples on the Web This sad, breezy insight, not quite punch line or proverb, is a fitting ending for Riker’s strange little novel of cosmopolitan solipsism-the notion that withdrawing from others can still be a way of caring for them.
