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Example sentences for: jest

How can you use “jest” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Infinite Jest , by Pat Buchanan
A jest is never uttered at someone else's expense.
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 ..."
Take Infinite Jest author David Foster Wallace, who has called irony the source of "a great despair and stasis in U.S. culture."