He was riding too high for a little gentle joshing to have any effect.

They traded the standard joshing, each saying he thought the other was utterly crazy for his career choice.

Everyone had enjoyed the evening: the usual joshing, frank talk, and exchange of news.

It was bad enough, dealing with the military joshing as he begged for condoms.

"When there was all that joshing and shoving, sure," Skif agreed.

You know, just to poke fun at in our joshing, lighthearted, nonjudgmental way.

International House, which contained some good-natured joshing about Joyce's love life.

After starting the story with the requisite joshing, the reporter offered a not-unfriendly view of the proceedings.

They either accepted the taunts about Christianity as well deserved or considered them all-in-the-family joshing.

The joshing had a soothing effect.

That comes down to the fibres, the way it's made and a lot of pointless British versus Italian joshing.

Apparently the amount of the start given the lunatic depended upon the amount of the bet to which the joshing led up.

The joshing was tempered by Tagg saying if his dad becomes president: "He'll never do anything to embarrass you."

No joshing intended.

Instantly, he made clear the joshing was affectionate by reciting his now familar homage to Kansas and home "where we decide right from wrong."

The normal us-them antipathy found among disparate units was down to the level of friendly joshing, so closely had the men trained and dedicated themselves.

"This is no factitious joshing.

An old tradition allowed mild joshing of a Cap'n, and Killeen felt a sizable pleasure in the joke.

It is a place of much joshing and cursing, and every hour of the day it seems a fight is about to start.

He didn't wait for Martin to laugh, because he wouldn't, although Butters had a sense that Martin sometimes enjoyed a little joshing.

Instead, the parents of the accused boy were distraught to find a silly bit of playground joshing was logged with the bureaucrats as a hate crime.

It was still infinitely better than Andy Gray and Martin Tyler's light-hearted joshing (its raining!

Nevertheless, with all the joshing and knife-throwing, "Economics in Perspective" represents his serious effort to restore economics to its literary, moral, historical and political roots.

The joshing in Atlantis is not funny, and the ragtag locals, one of whom looks like Jennifer Lopez, are inscrutable, though maybe they'll become more expressive.

Afterwards, when they packed the carts and got the ge-horses ready, the apprentices were all a lot easier around each other, the joshing and pranks weren't so hard-edged as before.

I looked at Pat and decided not to josh him about his hair.

And you should expect a bit of joshing about that.

Clyde was always glad to see me, and we would josh each other.

At one moment he was joshing about his chances of living another 20 or 30 years.

We were talking in a sort of joshing mode, so I could ask him that.

The old man looked at first to see if Roland was joshing him.

Probably your face is wrinkled up, too,he thought, trying to josh himself out of a growing mood.

He smiled nervously, not sure if I was joshing him.

Yet on the Internet, it is hard to know when people are joshing or deadly serious.

I get to josh with my colleagues about it.

He cannot tell for sure if you are joshing.

She turned to josh, who was watching her closely.

I liked that Joe could josh about his job, because it would have been too depressing otherwise.

They are joshing and teasing each other in a way that is clearly a routine.

Usually he came to josh and tease, much as he had in life.

And then on other occasions the same journalists josh with him about racing tips.

"I guess Bert an' the rest have joshed me all the time," he said.

Luke looked as if he couldn't make up his mind whether she was joshing him or not.

They began joshing one another about having good luck.

He'd been joshing, of course, but Brim agreed with him anyway.

If he isn't joshing, remember to walk really fast as you go over the ridge.

But I'm beginning to think you might be joshing me...

Strange that he'd never heard any of his people josh him about it, he thought, passing the first mile post on the track.

I was out with some colleagues recently when they started joshing about the women in the office, as blokes do.

Bud's joshing remarks had lifted his spirits and made him feel better already.