Sentence examples for making a jest from inspiring English sources

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If he were the guest editor for Charlie Hebdo, as fictitiously suggested, the Prophet would have unequivocally decried the bombing but also would have called on citizens of all faiths to make merry by working together, not by making a jest of one another's saints.

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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.

"I said that again today on 'Fox & Friends' calling her 'old school.' Unfortunately, I also made a jest about her hair which was dumb.

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.

Clark may have been making a donnish jest — you can almost hear the dry laughter in the lecture hall — but he was also on to something real: Warburg's engrams of energy are now more often pop than not.

I tried to calm him down as best I could, even making a little jest: "At least now we know where our money is at the moment".

I made a joke with Entertainment Weekly and I keep saying that we should do a spinoff, but it was in jest.

He makes a similar jest about Al Jolson, the immensely popular but personally repellant star of The Jazz Singer: Jolson apparently amused himself by urinating on people, which, Bryson conjectures, might explain why he had four wives.

In any case, the vignerons were at the Crush Wine Company in Midtown Manhattan when my friend, a doctor, made an innocent jest to Joe that drew such a harsh bark in response that her tears flowed.

"But still, how can I get out of this sentence?" Mr. von Trier, whose comments were apparently made in jest, Reuters said, and who had joked earlier in the news conference about making a pornographic film with Ms. Dunst and Ms. Gainsbourg, rambled through another answer before closing with: "O.K., I'm a Nazi".

He then makes a Kanye-esque jest, laughing: "But I would say that I don't have any regrets and I haven't hurt anyone – so fuck off, Dad".

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