Sentence examples for with a jest from inspiring English sources

It began with jokes about who asked who to partner whom, and continued with a jest about how many times Jankovic had kissed Murray at the end of their victories.

Bill Gibron of DVD Talk called it a "jest fest loaded with insight into the human heart and hilarious over-the-top goofiness".

But history likes a jest.

Elizabeth Diller, the Broad's lead architect, provided some hard facts — the museum packs 650 tons of steel and 36 million pounds of concrete — along with a few jests.

There are guns, animal bones, lovely higgledy-piggledy Kiwi vowels and shopkeepers who scowl menacingly and tell customers they'll be with them in "jest a succund".

Rosie O'Donnell tried to grease a prosecutor with candy in jest?–to drop the case against Martha Stewart Martha Stewart.

"A macabre jest," mutters an embarrassed Otto Schily.

"I have never been advocating a breakup of the euro zone," said Martin Taylor, former chief executive of Barclays bank, who caused a stir earlier this year with a proposal— "half in jest" — to split the euro into two currency zones, with one for the north and for the south.

Then, when I went to sleep later that night, he dozed off at my bedside with a copy of "Infinite Jest" open on his lap, which he'd been reading to me because he knew that this was the first decent chunk of downtime I'd had in years, and I'd been meaning to finally finish it.

So a Tutsi might jest with a Hutu colleague who reaches out for the milk during an office tea-break: "You Hutus, you want to drink all the milk now".

The chatter concluded with a remark, apparently in jest, from PG&E's Cherry to the PUC executive director.