Sentence examples for jakes from inspiring English sources
verb
To play a form of prank.
In 1596, in The Metamorphosis of Ajax (a jakes; i.e., privy), Harington described his invention in terms more Rabelaisian than mechanical and was again banished by Elizabeth.
Some were used "to serve theyr jakes, some to scoure candelstyckes, and some to rubbe their bootes.
Peter is such a champion he can stand in the jakes and throw up without using his finger.
All he has to do is go out to the jakes, stick his finger down his throat, and bring it all up so that he can start another round.
These jakes rarely look up at the crowd two-deep before them.
He drew nearly 1m people to Uhuru Park in central Nairobi on a recent visit, far more than would attend a political rally.Mr Jakes did not hold back.
Jake's, Calabash Bay, Treasure Beach, St Elizabeth, Jamaica (001 876 965 0635; islandoutpost.com/jakes).
In addition to the on-site restaurant and Dougie's Bar (complete with signature rum punch) beside the seawater pool, the Jakes-owned Jack Sprat, just along the water, serves fresh local seafood, tasty fish stew and huge pizzas by the beach.
Professor Jakes Gerwel is Chancellor of Rhodes University, Grahamstown A special supplement celebrating the life of Nelson Mandela.
The younger Mr Graham has described Islam as "a very evil and wicked religion" and Messrs Jakes and Osteen are too attached, both personally and theologically, to the "prosperity Gospel".
Bishop T.D. Jakes, the chief pastor of The Potters House, reaches 260 prisons a week via satellite.Most successful churches are humming with technology.
