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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:

This useless blurb is only half in jest.
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).
A jest is never uttered at someone else's expense.
' (David Foster Wallace, about Infinite Jest [weighing in at 1,088 pages, including 200 odd pages of footnotes] in Salon .)"-- Andrew Staples
David Foster Wallace wrote in Infinite Jest : "Talent is its own expectation.