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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:

He had labored too long to make America his own to feel it pulled out from under him, even in jest.
Take Infinite Jest author David Foster Wallace, who has called irony the source of "a great despair and stasis in U.S. culture."
What separates a jest from a witticism is its lack of malice.
' (David Foster Wallace, about Infinite Jest [weighing in at 1,088 pages, including 200 odd pages of footnotes] in Salon .)"-- Andrew Staples
Infinite Jest , by Pat Buchanan