We found 16 examples of how to use jest in an English sentence.
Sentences 1 to 16 of 16.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Are you in jest or in earnest? | |
| 2. | Many a true word is spoken in jest. | |
| 3. | I said so purely in jest. | |
| 4. | He said so in jest. | |
| 5. | There's many a true word spoken in jest. | |
| 6. | It is impudent of you to jest at him. | |
| 7. | I said it in jest. | |
| 8. | The question was a serious one, but he answered half in jest. | |
| 9. | Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, and now I know it. | |
| 10. | The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest. | |
| 11. | It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is a cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps. | |
| 12. | With his half-in-jest half-in-earnest air, we never know if René is speaking seriously or not. | |
| 13. | It has been a standing jest in the family that nothing could ever wake me during the night. | |
| 14. | The whole struck her as so ridiculous that, despite every effort to the contrary, she burst into a fit of incontrollable laughter, in which she was joined by her father, though with more moderation, and finally by the Master of Ravenswood himself, though conscious that the jest was at his own expense. | |
| 15. | So Lot went out, and spoke to his sons in law that were to have his daughters, and said: Arise: get you out of this place, because the Lord will destroy this city. And he seemed to them to speak as it were in jest. | |
| 16. | Don't jest! |