Joe Doakes
Example Sentences
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Joe Doakes" cannot pay her bills, Meany warned, "he'll look for higher wages.
From Time Magazine Archive
"You sit there and talk about it like it was something that was going to happen to Joe Doakes and Oscar Zilch."
From Murder in the Gunroom by Piper, H. Beam
Someone rushes in and tells you that Joe Doakes has been carried off by a flying saucer.
From The Flying Stingaree by Goodwin, Harold L. (Harold Leland)
The mere fact that the Venusian looks like any Joe Doakes walking down the street is a picayunish point.
From The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects by Ruppelt, Edward J.
Scientists, doctors, lawyers, merchants, and plain old Joe Doakes had seen UFO's, and their friends knew that they were responsible people.
From The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects by Ruppelt, Edward J.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
