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How to use japes in a sentence

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

Sentence Examples
On the program was a comedy duo that exchanged jests and japes and clouted one another upon the head with Indian clubs.
There is no doubt that away from the microphone and jolly japes there was a complex and serious man.
For those that got in, we drank away until the wee small hours and talked of old times, japes and larks.
Well I'm sure they will be laughing if we pick him, but not because of his jolly japes.
I particularly enjoyed the jolly japes and larks of Ping the Elastic Man, Tin-Can Tommy and Whoopee Hank the slapdash sheriff.
Ron suspected that she knew that he and Alan would be off for schoolboy japes and wizard pranks at any opportunity.
Even Lincoln, despite typical undergraduate japes, is hardly a hotbed of gossip.
He meets Godfrey, Emilia's brother, and together they share a long series of wild japes and adventures.
If by this point you are not already delirious, fear not, even more jolly japes and lunacy are to follow.
It was, admittedly, the only japes going in their dismal hamlet. It is equally easy for border guards to wade across to the other side.
A minstrel show became four or so men in blackface doing rough and rowdy songs on banjo, fiddle, tambourine and clacking bones, interspersed with japes, skits and dancing.
But what Jonathan Routh preferred to do was to dress up as a tree, wait at a bus stop and enquire which bus would take him to Sherwood Forest. That was one of his easier japes.
Based loosely on Victorian and Edwardian sporting events, an immaculately suited crowd try their hands at a variety of summer japes, including the egg and spoon race and a cucumber sandwich-throwing contest.
Examples from Classical Literature
She had always her smile to the side and her japes, and she looked to the warld.
The burgomaster, seeing that this day was the day for the fair of japes, would listen to them no longer.
Richard, offended with Bertran, gave him a flick on the ear and sent him to the devil with his japes.
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