Sentence examples for to jest from inspiring English sources
noun
An act performed for amusement; a joke.
No condom on his pen, he liked to jest.
Photo: "To jest nasz sąd" (It is our Court) by Chris Niedenthal.
Those rules still leave her with plenty of room to jest with her labmates.
Juggler, ( Latin joculare, "to jest" ) entertainer who specializes in balancing and in feats of dexterity in tossing and catching items such as balls, plates, and knives.
J is for Jelena Jankovic, who I like to jest has a preference for three-set matches as often as possible.
"There are very few people in positions of power who are mustached Americans, so for [David Axelrod] to even jest about removing his lip sweater is somewhat offensive to the entire American mustached community".
He had used a racial slur, albeit in jest, trying to joke with black teammates on the Carolina Panthers.
People for whom life is sacred, wholly and unrestrictedly, react with irritation, overt or hidden, to any jest at all, for any jest at all contains the comical, which is an affront to the sacred nature of life.
The girl said that the Times feels that since an artist's lot is not a happy one, it should not be referred to in jest.
General Motors ' product czar and Detroit's biggest celebrity, Bob Lutz Bob Lutz, made continual jokes about keeping "your eye on the Ion," but there was an underlying point to the jest: This car features the new small-car architecture of future GMs, meaning that many cars, like the Pontiac Sunfire, should get a heck of lot better once they sit on this chassis.
