jesting
Example Sentences
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Jesting or not, the only thing new in the notion is the hyperbole.
From Time Magazine Archive
Jesting friends of Governor Morley took pot shots at the prison searchlight, exploded mammoth firecrackers before the prison door.
From Time Magazine Archive
Jesting and paradoxes aside, however, the silent woman wields a power known only to the man toward whom her silence is directed.
From How to Cook Husbands by Worthington, Elizabeth Strong
"Jesting with her!" repeated Mansana scornfully, with clenched fists and knitted brows; whilst Sardi interjected: "Who is to look after her when you are gone?"
From Captain Mansana and Mother's Hands by Gosse, Edmund
Jesting light-heartedly over the coming encounter, the diners strolled out of Vinton's and down College Street in the direction of the campus.
From Grace Harlowe's Second Year at Overton College by Flower, Jessie Graham [pseud.]
