How to use "joked" in a sentence

'Your shadow has been here again,' he joked to Miss Niner.

The beggar laughed and joked with him, and Valjean returned that evening a happier man.

"A diamond necklace?" she joked.

"You sound like your grandmother," joked Ding.

Sala knew that Apat loved it when Cham came with them to the center, because Cham always joked around with him