| Half jestingly, I ask if he has ever been tempted to throw anything at it. |
| Pretty women, flushed and glittering, heard the news told jestingly between the dances, and feigned an intelligent interest they did not feel. |
| It was jestingly said that the model for the Odeum was from his own head. |
| Also, my comrades used jestingly to propound the ethical maxim that a man ought never to let himself become a burden upon anyone. |
| The nazism remarks, which were jestingly made in response to a question about his German roots, would probably spell career suicide if uttered outside the rarefied atmosphere of the Cannes film festival – and indeed may yet. |
| At last the conversation turned jestingly upon the upsetting of the shelf. |
