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Example sentences for: jest

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(For examples, see the effective but very different techniques employed by Nicholson Baker in his novel The Mezzanine , and by David Foster Wallace in the novel Infinite Jest and in the essays collected in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again .) On the other hand, the footnote as scholarly reference tool or scholarly reference weapon has never enjoyed more prominence than it does today--"each serious work of history," Grafton notes, "must now travel on an impregnably armored bottom, rather like a tank."
Chatter is indeed not a word used only to characterize what “females or nonhumans” speak (although some might have accused Yogi Berra of having the latter status in jest).
We done jest that.
Most people associate jest with Shakespeare's clowns and that over-quoted line from Romeo and Juliet , He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
Heh, the little galsI left to grow up a bit.Then there was that time,I was still in the Marines,facing a bar full of sailorswith jest a broken bottle ..."