How to use jest in a sentence

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• I was jest a little child but I knowed I oughten to go without my clothes.From the entry oughten
• He would never intentionally humiliate anyone, even in jest.From the entry humiliate
• There is many a true word spoken in jest.From the entry many a
• He only tried to mimic the other's movements in jest.From the entry in jest
• "We'll make a suit-and-tie man out of you yet," the senator had said once, half in jest.2002, John Quirt, Jackboots in the Heartland, →ISBN, page 59. From the entry humble-hearted
• Now ye and yore boys jest haul yore ashes and start makin' tracks back to the Yellowstone.1996, Matt Braun, Bloody Hand, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 222. From the entry haul one's ashes
• An' playing' a jeezly good game on top of 'er, jest to make things look legitimit!1976 November 30, John Challis, “Who is this guy?”, in Medium II, Erindale College, page 8. From the entry jeezly
• Jest whin the moosic sthopped an' the gurl looked up—thin she seen Lee.1920, Zane Grey, The U.P. Trail. From the entry gurl
• I'll jest sashay acrost the track an' give 'em my regards."1913, Horace Annesley Vachell, Bunch Grass. From the entry acrost
• When he started out o' Tennessee we'uns jest concluded t' strike out and leave him.1910, John McElroy, Si Klegg: Experiences of Si and Shorty on the Great Tullahoma Campaign, page 109. From the entry nary
• Where, lingering lovingly on kippered lies, They babble over chestnuts and their punch And stale round-table jests of years ago.2019, Robert Baldwin Ross, Masques & Phases. From the entry kippered
• 'Aw, now you jest shut yer geggie.2012 December 31, Stephen Baxter, Doctor Who: The Wheel of Ice, Penguin, →ISBN. From the entry geggie
• "I'm jest payin' yuh back for all the pain and humiliation I suffered in this den of iniquity—"1944, Robert Howard, Texas John Alden. From the entry den of iniquity
• I jest want to tell ye how it was.1937, Margaret Gardner Mayorga, editor, The Best One-act Plays of 1937, page 91. From the entry mistalk
• I was jest—jest sorter swept off my bearin's.1920, J. Allan Dunn, A Man To His Mate. From the entry downpitch
• It was an aberrated fulfillment of her old jesting threat that if he did not behave himself she would leave him.1918, Theodore Dreiser, “The Lost Phœbe”, in Free and Other Stories, New York: Boni and Liveright, page 122. From the entry aberrate
• In the course of years it had diminished sadly, but it was still with the Vicar a subject for jesting.1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter XXXIX, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC. From the entry nest egg
• Some says he's crazy, and some jest cross; and some says he's got a skeleton in his closet."1913, Eleanor H. Porter, chapter 9, in Pollyanna, L.C. Page, →OCLC. From the entry skeleton in the closet
• Jest a nice light there ’ll be.1913 March, Jeffery Farnol, “Which Relates, among other Things, How Barnabas Lost his Hat”, in The Amateur Gentleman, Boston, Mass.…. From the entry vay
• "I war jest a-countin' ob dem jailbirds, an' had 'rived at 'leven w'en a 'streperous root she keeled me ober.1911, Quincy Allen, The Outdoor Chums, Chapter 6. From the entry streperous
• Now you jest wipe your eyes and chirk up.1908, Grace Livingston Hill Lutz, Marcia Schuyler. From the entry chirk up
• Others suggested—either seriously or in jest—that Freddy was a CIA operative: “Back to Langley I’m afraid.” Last night, he deactivated his X account.2026 July 1, Will Oremus, “So Long to America’s Favorite Everymensch”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The…. From the entry langley
• Surely you jest, the Soviets respond.1988, U.S. News & World Report - Volume 105, page 38. From the entry slickem
• Then what can be the reason, without it is just a grim jest being played on the most unfoolable bird in the bush?1934, Henry G. Lamond, An Aviary On The Plains, page 206. From the entry unfoolable
• But jest yo’ lemme tell yo’ that knocker on the front door is a plumb scandalosity, an’ I isn’t gwine do yo’ wuck.1932, The Adventures of the Black Duse, Judd & Detweiler, Inc., page 209. From the entry scandalosity
• He, love-sick? ’Tis a goodly jest!1919, Max Beerbohm, “‘Savonarola’ Brown”, in Seven Men, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC, page 186. From the entry misogyn
• "Dang you, Luck, if you wasn't such a little runt I'd come up there and jest about lick the pants off you!"1916, B. M. Bower, chapter 9, in The Heritage of the Sioux. From the entry lick the pants off
• He don't speak ter no one; and he lives all alone in a great big lovely house all full of jest grand things, they say.1913, Eleanor H. Porter, chapter 9, in Pollyanna, L.C. Page, →OCLC. From the entry skeleton in the closet
• Often used in jest to describe rare or special moths one has seen in one’s trap, perhaps repeatedly, of which one knows for sure fellow mothers will be envious.2024 September 17, “Mothing Glossary”, in David Bradley's Sciencebase. From the entry mother
• It’s all techno an’ awlturnative horsetwaddle, an’ there jest ain’t no way true Wrangler-wearin’ line-dancin’ folks would ever be caught dead bein’ entertained by sumthin’ like that.1994 December 29, Roy Fisher, “. . End Notes: Hoedown countdown”, in See Magazine, number 60, volume 4, #24, page 26. From the entry horsetwaddle
• It is the merry jest of visiting urbanites to hail the blue-jeaned farmer as “Hiram” and ask with grotesque nasal whining after the welfare of his crops.1937, Frederic Franklyn Van de Water, chapter 8, in A Home in the Country, page 153. From the entry jeaned
• For one frightful moment there was no sound; even the men's breathing was hushed, and they sat slack-jawed, stunned, half-minded to believe this some hideous, incredible jest.1911, Rex Ellingwood Beach, chapter 26, in The Ne'er-Do-Well. From the entry slack-jawed

Meaning of jest

1. noun An act performed for amusement; a joke.
2. noun Someone or something that is ridiculed; the target of a joke.
3. noun A deed; an action; a gest.

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Questions about jest in a sentence

How do you use jest in a sentence?

Jest is used as a noun and verb. For example: “I made that comment in jest; it wasn't serious.”

What is a short sentence with jest?

“Surely you jest!”

What does jest mean?

Jest means an act performed for amusement; a joke.