jousts

Example Sentences

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Perhaps they’ll even find more cosmic jousts — enough to make a whole tournament!

From Space Scoop • May 21, 2025

It’s a good thing that Jagannathan and Brown have training in the theater: They imbue Priya and Nic’s densely verbal jousts, dodges and truths with compelling chiaroscuro hues.

From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2023

Medieval Times Dinner and Tournament, based in Irving, Texas, is a Spanish nobility-themed dinner theater show with live-action jousts on horseback.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2023

There's an expectation of the verbal jabs and jousts in parliament chambers.

From BBC • Mar. 10, 2021

Sir Kay managed to get them on the way to the lists at least an hour before the jousts could possibly begin.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White