Sentence examples for children jest from inspiring English sources

Children jest in the background.

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

As a writer and performer Ms. Fey mocks everything, but she rarely disparages her children even in jest, which is almost surprising in such a sharp-edged humorist.

They looked for the lollipops she carried in her pockets and she looked for the children, enjoying the jest of first saying she had no more.

Merrymaking and jest fill the child king's days.

When caddies and fellow players call him the golden child, it is partly in jest.

Seeing even a portion of the beloved novel brought to life was "like a weird dream fugue," he said, though he reluctantly accepted that his video could not end as the passage from "Infinite Jest" does, with a child's having his head crashed into a computer monitor.

He did not deny he let off steam after his canoe hit a rock on the Rifle River last summer, but he said he didn't see any children and that his shouts were in jest.

I do say this somewhat in jest, since the origins of "Take Your Child to Work" stem from the objective of exposing children to various careers versus being born out of parental convenience or necessity.

The only reason she was still writing her children's literature column, she wrote, probably not entirely in jest, "is to have the books for the Brooklin library".

He said all children should be taught about Peterloo, a term which came about in jest, when survivors made sarcastic parallels with the battle of Waterloo four years previously.