Sentence examples for their jest from inspiring English sources

Once the successes pass, however, the need for self-justification moves forward, and we hear a great deal about the villains who beset him — "men who made their way into my compassionate heart with the usual weapons of the hypocrite and the fawner and then ended their jest in the cry: 'Death to him!

Once the successes pass, however, the need for self-justification moves forward, and we hear a great deal about the villains who beset him—"men who made their way into my compassionate heart with the usual weapons of the hypocrite and the fawner and then ended their jest in the cry: 'Death to him!

And wasn't the return of the repressed a shared preoccupation in some of their jests?

Their little jest, as their evenings at the Broadway Bar ended, was that they were going back home to the Bronx.

2. J-E-S-T Jest, jest, jest.

We're two sides of the same coin, and when scientists jest that their classmates taking certain  courses ("Sociology 436: Special Topics in Muppet Babies") are wasting their time, we mean no harm after all, with some exceptions, we say "Ugh, philosophy" the same way they say "Ugh, astronomy".

SOME people talk, sometimes in jest, about leaving their brains to science.

"All family dynasties, he explained with an expression between earnestness and jest, can trace their histories back to some act of brigandage.

Hanna and Danilo jest about romance, denying their mutual feelings.

Pyndus began to apologize for his mispronunciation, which the man took in jest as they went their separate directions.

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.