Sample Sentences forjoust (editor-reviewed)
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In the medieval festival, the highlight was the joust, where knights on horseback charged at each other with lances.joust = a contest in which mounted knights attempt to knock each other off horses with blunted lances
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She fell entering the final curve as the runners jousted for position.jousted = contested
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I saw the jousting show in Las Vegas.jousting = a contest in which mounted knights attempt to knock each other off horses with blunted lances
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You shall prove your worth by facing me in a joust! (source)joust = a contest in which knights attempt to knock each other off horses with blunted lances
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Yet he acquitted himself well, unhorsing Horas Redwyne in his first joust and one of the Freys in his second. (source)
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...a great tournament was held in Atticus's time in which the gentlemen of the county jousted for the honor of carrying their ladies into Maycomb for a great banquet. (source)jousted = competed in a contest to knock each other off horses with blunted lances
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"They don't joust," Marion grumbled, (source)joust = a contest in which knights attempt to knock each other off horses with blunted lances
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Let there be parades through every city in the land and a gala carnival of three days' duration, consisting of jousts, games, feasts, and follies.† (source)
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He jousted this way and that with his imaginary foes, spinning and ducking in imitation of Hatter Madigan, whose military workouts he often watched and studied.† (source)
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I charged the goat-killer with my twenty-foot-long jousting light fixture.† (source)
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Robert Baratheon had been an indifferent jouster, in truth.† (source)
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He had learned that this dated back to the days of the jousters.† (source)
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he jousteth mightily.† (source)standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She jousteth" in older English, today we say "She jousts."
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Announcing his intention to the bachelor, he asked his advice as to the quarter in which he ought to commence his expedition, and the bachelor replied that in his opinion he ought to go to the kingdom of Aragon, and the city of Saragossa, where there were to be certain solemn joustings at the festival of St. George, at which he might win renown above all the knights of Aragon, which would be winning it above all the knights of the world.† (source)
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Sir Grummore Grummursum is on the way to challenge you to a joust. (source)
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Knights farther back than Arthur carried these into jousts and battles.† (source)
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