Sentence examples for jest about from inspiring English sources
The phrase "jest about" is not correct in standard written English
It seems to be a misspelling or misinterpretation of "just about," which is used to indicate something is nearly or almost the case.
Example: "I'm just about ready to leave for the party."
Alternatives: "almost" or "nearly"
Hanna and Danilo jest about romance, denying their mutual feelings.
Nobody would make that jest about Michael Phelps.
SOME people talk, sometimes in jest, about leaving their brains to science.
Or does it denote progress: we've come so far from historical horrors that we freely jest about them?
And we "gave" as good as we got, congratulating each other, half in jest, about what good citizens we were being.
The problems that getting rid of most of the cars solves are like Mark Twain's jest about the weather: everyone complains but nobody ever does anything about it.
"Shrek the Musical" is not the first show to offer japes and jests about Broadway musicals.
The jests about Ms. Swift, who is 23, have not affected her image, according to widely followed measurements of celebrity popularity known as Q scores.
The New Yorker, June 6 , 1942P. 9 We have never derived any comfort from those news dispatches reporting that the citizens of the totalitarian nations are circulating "bitter jests" about the dictators.
Frogs pop up, not just in "The Love Sick Frog," which has been around since the early seventeenth century, but in the minstrel song "Old Aunt Jemima," which jests about a forbidden love between a bullfrog and a tadpole's sister.
In addition to his jests about religion and politics, he talked about using drugs, including LSD and peyote; he kicked cocaine, he said, not for moral or legal reasons but because he found "far more pain in the deal than pleasure".
