Sentence examples for jesting remark from inspiring English sources

(For that, perhaps, he should have apologized, but for his jesting remark the other night that getting married had perhaps caused an Austrian racer's fade in the rankings — "it may be her husband's fault," he deadpanned — his contrition on the air soon afterward, clearly forced on him after a blizzard of tweets blew in the doors at NBC, seemed unnecessary and a little square).

— You're jesting.

His tone was gentle, not jesting.

It's hard to know if Atwood is jesting.

He was jesting, but only in part.

RICHMOND The king? Art thou jesting with me, Derby?

The king? Art thou jesting with me, Derby?

Wit, too, eluded her, though she loved comedy, jesting, and slapstick.

JOHN McCAIN is a master of jesting about his advanced years.

And their can-you-top-this vein of jesting runs straight through our national attitude.

He was looking forward to being hit, he said, jesting only a bit.