funny bone

Example Sentences

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Bryce Harper gave the Phillies a brief scare when he hurt his funny bone in a collision at first base in Game 4.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 14, 2023

Maybe Steiner tickled your funny bone, maybe not, but “deliver a condolence card” conveyed the gravity of the moment better than the similarly generic “going out to settle him down.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 20, 2023

There has to be a heart to every character and there has to be a funny bone.

From Salon • Mar. 22, 2023

This story is much more likely to break your heart than your funny bone.

From Washington Post • Nov. 15, 2022

Except under pretty rare circumstances, in any crisis, when I was nineteen, my funny bone invariably had the distinction of being the very first part of my body to assume partial or complete paralysis.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger