Sentence examples for jest and from inspiring English sources

"It's all done in jest and fun," Mr. Paoletti said.

He wrote: "But it was all meant in jest and anyway it worked.

"But it was meant in jest, and it was strictly a passing remark".

"You are asking me out?" she said in jest, and struck a pose.

Chapbooks were timeless books of jest and tales that often sprang out of folklore.

I jest and, of course, do not wish to demean our hero in any way.

Addressed to "Nomica," the letter, equal parts jest and concern, encouraged De La Torre to be ambitious and brave.

Life is a jest, and all things show it; I thought so once, and now I know it.

"I hope to make a million dollars," he said, perhaps in jest, and the room erupted in laughter.

I was 20 years old, a handsome devil, looking for a woman," he said with grand self-jest and a smile at a sailor's life.

"Life is a jest / And all things show it," the cameraman says at the play's coda.