Sentence examples for a jesting from inspiring English sources

Mr. Booker said he and Mr. McCarthy enjoy a jesting comparison of each other.

Bethann of Connecticut has offered a jesting caution to fellow readers: genealogical study can be immensely time consuming.

Before leaving, Pan said, in a jesting tone, "So, nothing to do with me this evening?" "Go off," Zhang replied dryly.

"Do you answer the phone?" Mr. Riccardi says with a jesting smile to a tiny woman with frosty hair, as he sorts her envelopes.

Tom Glavine, the Atlanta pitcher, says, through a jesting smile, that hitters "are intimidated by our intelligence and our perspective on the game".

Most do". In addition to baseball books, Mr. Mead wrote with Mike Feinsilber "American Averages: Amazing Facts of Everyday Life," a 1980 collection of statistical trivia, often done in a jesting tone.

Fremont Judge Donald B. Squires had retaliated for an unrelated, good-natured but "uncomplimentary" cartoon of himself by Aaron--a longtime friend--with an equally jesting note declaring, "YOU DIE!" Aaron, thinking he had received a real death threat, interrupted the hearing to denounce the note on the record.

"They were jesting a bit after a charge from behind from the smaller of the two, Oscar.

JOHN McCAIN is a master of jesting about his advanced years.

Common sense was sturdy everywhere, scornful, jesting, a little inclined to persecute the obdurate fearful.

You don't think you're autistic, and your colleague's suggestion may have been offered in a cynical or jesting spirit, but let's explore the proposal.