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How to use jape in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word jape? Here are some examples.

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Although I am never actually intentionally cruel to my parents, there is one little jape I like to have at this time of year.
Still these biker boys made out such things were mere pranks, a witty jape for a Sunday afternoon.
What cheered me up further was the readiness of the coach drivers to jape and joke about with people who didn't understand English.
It was clearly meant to be a sycophantic gesture, but the jape backfired like a blocked Victorian shotgun.
One uproarious jape later, they had a story that, with a little embellishment, would keep them in drink for months, and possibly even form the basis of their next novel.
Maria began to laugh jovially, as though this was all just a jape.
Another favourite jape is to get the bridegroom blind drunk and then shave off all his hair, including his eyebrows and where the sun does not shine.
Now the Lond of Egypt longeth to the Soudan, yet the Soudan longeth not to the Lond of Egypt. And when I say this, I do jape with words, and may hap ye understond me not.
Jape Devon stepped out of his Warbird as the rasping engines shut down.
It featured remixes from the likes of Jape, Hunter-Gatherer and Legion Of Two.
Examples from Classical Literature
And when this jape is told another day I shall be halden a daffe or a Cokenay.
Presently, when they heard him snoring, they began asking each other in whispers what jape they could play off on him.
It made a new game for him, you see, amusing and rather flattering as well, the kind of a jape he was all too apt at.
Mr. Mackie, passing with his orange partner, had repeated his jape about the Ruthless Boaz.
If someone tried that little jape at an airport they would be instantly hauled off to the cells.
I'm goin' to jape a bit with our friend, a' la 'Molly' Fairburn.
It is a good jape,but the trustee felt we had got to make a point.
The jape, set up by the BBC Radio 4 Today programme, claimed that the national anthems of EU members were to be scrapped in favour a unified tune.
And, as luck would have it, Norm Macdonald was there with Miller throughout the 20th century, offering comic insights that invariably degenerate into lame genitalia jape.
With just two weeks left to Good Friday, BD festival has revealed its final line-up announcement adding the wonderful Jape and chart newcomers The Academic.
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