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113 example sentences for JEST, such as:
1. A true jest is no jest.
2. Better lose a jest than a friend.
3. Many a true word is spoken in jest.
4. He was jest mad, that's what he was.
5. It was a jest rather than a reproach.
2. Better lose a jest than a friend.
3. Many a true word is spoken in jest.
4. He was jest mad, that's what he was.
5. It was a jest rather than a reproach.
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Meanings and Examples of JEST
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jest
n. a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter
v. act in a funny or teasing way
Classic Sentence: (105 in 8 pages)
1 She wondered how he could jest so blithely with a rope about his neck and her pitiful circumstances before him.
2 She perceived that the men, particularly Dave, regarded it as an excellent jest.
3 The Smails and Kennicott laughed very much at this sly jest.
4 She never knew precisely what to make of it; at that moment it was impossible for her to guess how much of it was jest and what proportion was earnest.
5 The moments glided on, while a feeling of good fellowship passed around the circle like a mystic cord, holding and binding these people together with jest and laughter.
6 It was a standing jest of the boarders that Aniele cleaned house by letting the chickens loose in the rooms.
7 "I dunno jest where they be," he said.
8 Well, yeh kin b'lieve me er not, jest as yeh like.
9 Yer jest one little feller amongst a hull lot of others, and yeh've got to keep quiet an do what they tell yeh.
10 I've knet yeh eight pair of socks, Henry, and I've put in all yer best shirts, because I want my boy to be jest as warm and comf'able as anybody in the army.
11 You can believe me or not, jest as you like.
12 You jest wait 'til to-morrow, and you'll see one of the biggest battles ever was.'
13 He was jest mad, that's what he was.
14 It's raised a queer lump jest as if some feller had lammed yeh on th head with a club.
15 It kinder makes my blood run cold to think of 't; and when they carried off the child, and locked her up, she jest went ravin' mad, and died in a week.
Example Sentence:
1 Many a true word is spoken in jest.
2 I wasn't sure whether to treat her words as a jest.
3 A true jest is no jest.
4 Better lose a jest than a friend.
5 His proposal was no jest - he was completely sincere.
6 It was a jest rather than a reproach.
7 I can easily see him making that comment in jest and then some site running it as gospel.
8 Chaucer's monk is not pious but salacious. a teller of lewd tales and ribald jests.