Sentence for jest | Use jest in a sentence

Sentences using the word jest. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use jest in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for jest.

• There was something here beyond a jest! (8)
• But his practice was a jest. (2)
• Was it all a jest, an irony? (9)
• She seemed insensible of his jest. (9)
• Two men he knew stopped to bandy a jest. (8)
• She could parry it with a jest, and then it would mean nothing. (9)
• Now you jest hand him over, and sheer off, you dam young scoundrels! (10)
• One must either take it as a jest, like Stephen; or, what must one do? (8)
• He had said it in jest; and then, in a flash, the idea had come to him. (8)
• Henry had certainly been only in jest in what he had told her that morning. (4)
• It would be hideous to be always together; we should be the jest of the place. (4)
• He gave me a broad pleasant smile, without sign of a jest lurking in one corner. (10)
• The young man could scarcely believe his master was not stooping to jest with him. (10)
• No jest escapes the lips of one, that would badinet upon the steps of the guillotine. (6)
• But in either case she seemed to like being his jest, from which she snatched a fearful joy. (9)
• The elements hereupon crashed deep and long from end to end, like a table of Titans passing a jest. (10)
• I waited for a moment, till the first burst of their merriment over, I should obtain a clue to the jest. (6)
• He made a jest of the trouble it had cost him, even some sleeplessness, and said he felt now like a convalescent. (9)
• He still made a jest of her remonstrance, trying the temper of the animal, and rejoicing in its dark flushes of ireful vigour. (10)

Also see sentences for: banter, chaff, cheer, frolic, fun, gayety, jesting.

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