Examples of “joey” in a Sentence

noun A baby kangaroo or similar marsupial.

• At the wildlife park, we watched a joey hop beside its mother.
• The keeper fed the orphaned joey from a small bottle.
• The joey peeked out of its mother's pouch.

noun A clown, especially in British circus tradition.

• The old circus had a famous joey who wore baggy trousers and a red nose.
• My grandfather remembered seeing a joey fall over his own enormous shoes.
• The joey tumbled across the ring to make the children laugh.