Sentence examples for jest it from inspiring English sources

All in jest it, was said.

She added that, although the page started in jest, it highlights a disturbing phenomenon in Israel.

She announced -- only half in jest, it seemed -- that the car would stop until he buckled up.

While this was all meant in jest, it didn't take long for the experience to become deeply unfunny at my end.

There's footage of her harshly glaring down her impudent Scott Pilgrim co-star Michael Cera – not in jest, it would seem.

There is relish in his smile; he likes to say, in jest, "It isn't fun until someone gets hurt," and he enjoys watching lesser men attempt to keep up with him.

If s/he says inappropriate things in front of others, such as, "Wait till I get you alone!" (even if this is said in jest), just laugh it off for the moment.

Maybe, she half-jests, it was that blood transfusion she had as a girl, lifting her while leaving her siblings to the usual South Boston fates: police officer, trucker, recovering addict.

Her costumer jests it's the color of her shoes, but she knows it's something else.

Others wondered if I was wasting my time, commenting only half in jest that "it's going to be a very short book, then".

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