They no longer made the nervous jokes that had punctuated the start of the voyage; this new experience was too overwhelming.

They traded nervous jokes and occasionally dropped to the floor for a last-minute set of push-ups to keep their muscles pumped.

He heard the boys making nervous jokes but he was determined to put on a show of bored indifference for the ground crew.

To make up for the unkindness, he made a bad and nervous joke.

After the Prada space was deemed safe for the editors, nervous jokes began about which of the house's competitors might have placed the call.

He told a joke, slightly nervous that he was crossing the boundary of taste.

The proprietor of the Rose de France had made a nervous joke about her thinness.

Do they make nervous jokes about fog and porridge?

By that time, many people in Derry had begun to make nervous jokes about arks.

Diplomats had made nervous jokes in recent weeks about being across the street from such likely targets.