Sentence examples similar to I was jesting from inspiring English sources
He was jesting, but only in part.
He was jesting at ingratitude, taking the honor as a mark of his company's successful reversal of fortunes in the past five years under his direction.
It's hard to know if Atwood is jesting.
Surely you were jesting in your article "Barnyard Chic: From Pool House to Town House, the Big Red Structures Aren't for Animals" (Aug. 7).
"They were jesting a bit after a charge from behind from the smaller of the two, Oscar.
He would say he remembered feeding me when I was a child, and would make me promise, jesting, to cut up his lamb chops when he was old and toothless.
("I am far from jesting," he added, unnecessarily. Thoreau regarded humor as he regarded salt, and did without).
Trump then noted "I'm proud of you, Corey," while jesting that his top aide "wasn't quite as effective for the past couple of months".
He also said that his behaviour was merely "jesting in a postmodern way".
Luiz Felipe Scolari was surely jesting when he insisted afterwards that, while he had no quarrel with the penalty from which Zidane won the match, Portugal should also have had one for a push by Willy Sagnol on Cristiano Ronaldo.
