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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:

I probably could still pass the (state) bar exam," he says, somewhat in jest, because of all the different areas of the law still very familiar to him.
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.
He had labored too long to make America his own to feel it pulled out from under him, even in jest.
Two terms, now considered somewhat archaic, that fit into the category of eliciting laughter are jest and sally .
A jest is never uttered at someone else's expense.