Sentence examples for jested from inspiring English sources
"Apparently defence is Iain Duncan Smith," it jested, "because he used to be the publishing director of Jane's Defence Weekly".What larks.
Gregory IX deeply distrusted Frederick both in religious and political matters: Frederick was supposed to have jested that Moses, Christ, and Muḥammad were three impostors who had themselves been hoodwinked; and in the political arena the Pope was fearful that the Papal States were about to be isolated and encircled, particularly because a pro-imperial party had been formed in Rome.
Dressed in black (a new fashion, promoted by the dandy Beau Brummell), he charmed and jested his way through the drawing- and dining-rooms of London.
Even when Ryan Adams jested, as he neared the end of his Cadogan Hall set last year, that this was the point at which he would put on his jacket and expect us all to pretend that we think he's leaving and clap enthusiastically before he returns, minutes later, it felt like a joke that's wearing a bit thin.
The base acquired the nickname Gitmo, from the Navy call signal GTMO; sailors boasting of their access to Cuban women jested that it was not called "git' mo' " for nothing.
W.H. Auden, observing a "cult of salads," jested that "before very long" the south of England would resemble "the Continong".
In the Nicomachean Ethics (4, 8) he warns that "Most people enjoy amusement and jesting more than they should … a jest is a kind of mockery, and lawgivers forbid some kinds of mockery perhaps they ought to have forbidden some kinds of jesting".
Donald Rumsfeld quasi-jested that he knew Dick "back when the president of the United States still led our foreign policy, instead of Putin".
"In semi-jest, I used a word which, maybe … I could have chosen a better word.
It has conflated the interests of party and state, dishing out contracts for public works as rewards for loyalty hence the bitter jest that the government is in hock to "tenderpreneurs".
