clowning around

Example Sentences

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But too much clowning around might not look so smart.

From BBC • Sep. 20, 2025

Living up to her designation as “the Internet’s favorite rich auntie,” Ross keeps her Instagram followers well fed with endless glamour and lots of clowning around.

From Salon • Aug. 3, 2025

The Wayans with the most range when it comes to acting and clowning around takes the stage in between whatever massive projects he’s working on to keep his stand-up muscles strong.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2022

Lemercier grew up in a farming family with three sisters and learned quickly that her clowning around could lighten her depressed mother’s mood.

From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2022

I wasn’t like, say, Laura, who for all her clowning around could worry for days, weeks even, about some little thing someone said to her.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro