Sentence examples for Little jest from inspiring English sources

Their little jest, as their evenings at the Broadway Bar ended, was that they were going back home to the Bronx.

At a certain point – in fact, a very uncertain point – he appears to have caused imperial offence by mocking the undue influence of a dance master at court; the offending verses quickly reached the ears of the emperor, the unstable Domitian, and Juvenal's little jest was paid for with exile, probably to Egypt, possibly Scotland.

I tried to calm him down as best I could, even making a little jest: "At least now we know where our money is at the moment".

But Florida Gov. Jeb Bush had his little jest during a Cabinet meeting, joking that the people of San Francisco may be endangered, and "that's probably good news for the country". The remark came to Bush's lips as he was considering environmental land and surveying a map of places with plenty of varied wildlife species.

But in 1726, many scholars believed that organisms arose by spontaneous generation: if heat and light could magic living flesh from nothing, then it could also act upon "lapidifying forces" to conjure up stony little jests, sports of nature, testaments to God's mysterious ways.

We say little in jest, really.

2. J-E-S-T Jest, jest, jest.

"I just said one little line in jest on Raw and one thing led to another.

Sell 'em to yo' fo' jest a little money".

Now for something completely different: design concepts that are fanciful and sometimes half in jest, with little chance, in most cases, of ever being realized.

After watching "Whiteout," "The Maze Runner," "Son of Rambow," "The Internship," and a film that he later recalled had something to do with bike messengers, he loped into the arrivals hall at Terminal 1, carrying a small backpack that contained "Infinite Jest" and little else.