Example sentences for: jousting

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

  • The elongated oval piazza was laid out around a.d. 79 by Emperor Domitian as an athletics stadium, Circus Agonalis — a sporting tradition continued in the Middle Ages with jousting tournaments and other events in the centuries that followed.

  • This handsome, outsize TV antenna makes up for its unimaginative name (from its builder, the Canadian National railway and telecommunications company) with all the fanciful interpretations of its shape: jousting lance, hypodermic needle, serpent frozen rigid while swallowing a football.

  • The Washington Post also fronts campaign jousting by the two but goes instead with a momentous Labor Department decision: Companies that allow employees to work at home will be held responsible for federal health and safety violations that occur at the home work site.

  • June: Pisa: San Ranieri, jousting and torchlit regatta on Arno river; Florence: medieval soccer game in costume

  • Once the site of jousting tournaments, it’s now lined with park benches and cafés.


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