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How to use joust in a sentence

12 example sentences · noun, verb

Joust means a tilting match: a mock combat between two mounted knights or men-at-arms using lances in the lists or enclosed field. Example: “The knights prepared to joust in the tournament.”

Examples of joust by meaning

verbTo engage in mock combat on horseback, as two knights in the lists; to tilt.

  • The knights prepared to joust in the tournament.

verbTo engage in verbal sparring over an important issue. (used of two people, both of whom participate more or less...

  • Politicians often joust with words during debates.

More sentences with joust

  • But jousts are the No. 1 attraction at Ren fests.2021 June 24, John Bordsen, “Tips for attending 2021 Renaissance festivals”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post…. From the entry Ren fest
  • Outside, Michael shrugged against the stiff shoulders of his jousting gambeson, opting to leave his platemail in the trunk.2021, Patricia A. Jackson, Forging a Nightmare, London: Angry Robot, →ISBN, page 66. From the entry platemail
  • But do not joust (to break) fifty or sixty or one hundred lances as you are accustomed to do.2020, Alan V. Murray, Karen Watts, The Medieval Tournament as Spectacle: Tourneys, Jousts and Pas D'armes, 1100-1600, Boydell & Brewer…. From the entry grapper
  • He collected a number of injuries that stopped him jousting, and then in middle age became stout, eventually gross.2013, Hilary Mantel, “Royal Bodies”, in London Review of Books, 35.IV. From the entry gross
  • The passguard is much larger than that worn in jousting at the tilt, reaching nearly to the left shoulder.2013, R. Coltman Clephan, The Medieval Tournament, Courier Corporation, →ISBN. From the entry passguard
  • Even if Trump isn’t righteously jousting with the judge and being persecuted by the Soros machine, he can tell his base that he is.2024 April 16, David A. Graham, “Trump’s Alternate-Reality Criminal Trial”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 17 Apr 2024. From the entry righteously
  • Rather than the dramedic goo of so much streaming content, Succession holds open the gap between its hilarious jousts and its terrific stabs.2024, Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late Capitalism. From the entry dramedic
  • Troll fights every Saturday, centaur roller derby Tuesday nights, zombie paintball every second Friday, unicorn jousting at Christmas and a dragonriding tournament in June.2017 October 10, Jessica Townsend, “Welcome to Nevermoor”, in Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow, Sydney, N.S.W.: Lothian, Hachette…. From the entry dragonriding
  • You may, if you will, journey through life as many a valiant traveler before you has done, jousting strongheartedly with the years, marked but not marred by age.1975, Frank Samuel Caprio, Add Life to Your Years, page 26. From the entry strongheartedly
  • The off-ramp handbrake spin-'n'-sprint, the salt-truck joust, the 10-meter pothole puddle jump — all were good ideas rejected because of logistical problems or the likelihood that we would be sued.2003, Car and Driver - Volume 48, page 111. From the entry puddle jump

Meaning of joust

  1. noun A tilting match: a mock combat between two mounted knights or men-at-arms using lances in the lists or enclosed field.
  2. verb To engage in mock combat on horseback, as two knights in the lists; to tilt.
  3. verb To engage in verbal sparring over an important issue. (used of two people, both of whom participate more or less equally).

Full definition of joust

Questions about joust in a sentence

How do you use joust in a sentence?
Joust is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The knights prepared to joust in the tournament.”
What is a short sentence with joust?
“Politicians often joust with words during debates.”
What does joust mean?
Joust means a tilting match: a mock combat between two mounted knights or men-at-arms using lances in the lists or enclosed field.

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