Sentence examples for the jest from inspiring English sources

The jest went off faintly.

At first, the show's judges enjoyed the jest, calling his waltz "warm" and "understated".

The jest behind the paper is that it was reported and edited by dogs for dogs.

The point was that the women could not be understood, so making them understandable made the jest less effective.

The jest was a veiled reference to the fact Clinton aides deleted more than 30,000 emails from her server.

Ah well, the jest goes on, Mr Gates would at least have ended up as a senior manager in a big corporation.

There is a joke book here, for example, printed in 1786: "Be Merry and Wise, or the Cream of the Jests," the long title begins.

In other contexts it serves as an initiatory ordeal in which the initiate must persevere through the jests and insults hurled at him.

The jests about Ms. Swift, who is 23, have not affected her image, according to widely followed measurements of celebrity popularity known as Q scores.

The jests and practical jokes, which generally depend on a pun, are broadly farcical, often brutal, sometimes obscene; but they have a serious theme.

It once attracted the admiration of trendsetters in the West, the jests of comedians at home and abroad, and the somewhat impotent ire of animal rights advocates.