Sentence examples for be a jest from inspiring English sources
The title of their single "Dumb Disco Ideas" may be a jest to the dance movement as it ballooned into staggering hedonism, but it's also a fine example of why we all love dance music in the first place.
The professor actually happened to be talking Donald Trump in class yesterday, specifically how the candidate made that weird allusion to "Second Amendment people" many took to be a jest about killing Hillary Clinton.
Life is a jest, and all things show it; I thought so once, and now I know it.
"Life is a jest / And all things show it," the cameraman says at the play's coda.
Bear in mind what Falstaff says at the end of Verdi's opera: "Everything in the world is a jest.
Many offer some wry comment, such as John Gay's epitaph: Life is a jest, and all things show it; I thought so once, and now I know it.
Lawyers for Paul Chambers have argued that his message was not intended to menace the airport authorities and was "a jest, a joke, a parody".
The vertigo of the final fugue, set to the text "All the world is a jest," especially, shook the conscience like the voice from the whirlwind.
In an appeal at Doncaster crown court, his barrister, Stephen Ferguson, said Chambers had been merely engaging in "banter and craic" and that far from having menacing intent, his message was "a jest, a joke, a parody".
