Sentence examples for make jest from inspiring English sources

Roughly 2.4 million people live with schizophrenia; 6.1 million people live with bipolar disorder; 14.8 million people live with depression; and 42 million live with anxiety disorders; yet, unless something terrible happens, people make jest of, or ignore those living with these issues; but it's never funny - especially when it leads to abuse, suicide or murder.

Was she making jest on the theory that even doctors were leaning towards?

After this Aemilius wrought havoc among the possessions of the Boii and celebrated a triumph, in which he conveyed the foremost captives clad in armour up to the Capitol, making jests at their expense for having sworn not to remove their breastplates until they had ascended to the Capitol.

Nobody would make that jest about Michael Phelps.

A visitor exaggerated when he reported that New Englanders could "neither drive a bargain, nor make a jest, without a text of Scripture at the end on it," but he was not far off.

Despite the moderate praise, however, Morgan did make a jest at the portrayal of the subway in the show, noting that the it was not realistic; she wrote that the set was the "cleanest, emptiest subway station in world No urine.

"The comments were obviously made in jest, but what's not a joke is the harm Obamacare has caused for countless Utahns," Whitlock told KSTU.

Back in October 2000, just before he was elected president, George Bush described his base as "the haves and the have mores". The remark was made in jest at the annual Al Smith Black Tie dinner, but the joke turned out to be on all those people who used to have just about enough, and who now, eight years later, have next to nothing.

He said they were made in jest".

Some comparisons between Advertising Week and Fashion Week are made in jest.

He kept a promise, ostensibly made in jest, to Kurdin.