Example sentences for: jest

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

  • In effect, the name was an ironic compliment, a friendly jest passed from one scruffy and uncouth people (the traders themselves were hardly known for their dainty manicures and designer coiffures) to another.

  • We done jest that.

  • This useless blurb is only half in jest.

  • 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 ..."

  • 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.


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