Sentence examples for You jest from inspiring English sources
"How about some pro-JHUT-o?" you jest.
Then dissent sets in, and a scolding tone emerges ("You should know better"; "Surely you jest").
Surely you jest, or have listened once too often to the CBC, our state-run radio and one-time employer of the aloof governor-general.
Surely you jest with your feigned concern that advertising in The Times may be tainting the purity of its news content.
Ask any resident of Gaza what their thoughts are on the US-sponsored "direct talks" between Israel and Mahmoud Abbas's Ramallah government, and you're likely to hear one of three responses: 1) Surely, you jest; 2) Something's rotten in Ramallah; 3) Negotiations?
Head tilted, eyebrow raised in a surely-you-jest arch, Ms. Fishkin repeated, "I'm sorry, this is reserved".
"He does not zip her into a burka," you controversially jest, "but tries pretty much everything else.
Just think how jealous the actor would be if all the critics ignored his performance, you subtly jest, before offering your verdict.
To hear Ms. Ricci snap, "Do you not jest?" or insult a friend as "thou painted maypole" — refashioning the iambs into a California lilt — is to realize that Shakespeare and Ms. Ricci both know a thing or two about mean girls.
However, Groening later denied the story in the DVD commentary for the episode "Gump Roast", while Jean stated in a piece after Taylor's death in 2011 that Taylor had said "fuck you" in jest and in Maggie's voice and did not storm out.
