How to Use jilt in a Sentence

jilt

verb

• She was crushed when he jilted her.
• This time, Tam mailed signed posters to the fans left jilted by the concert bait-and-switch.
  — Nathan Rizzo | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive.com, 9 June 2019
• But then the Josh McDaniels jilting story happened, and the Colts had to star their coach search again.
  — Peter King, SI.com, 11 Feb. 2018
• Not wanting a guy who jilted you to succeed I get, but some of the anger and nastiness is way over the top.
  — Tim Brown, oregonlive, 3 Nov. 2019
• Ross's soothing words are jilted and mired by static; his brush strokes are jerky.
  — Sarah Rense, Esquire, 11 Apr. 2017
• But the danger is that shareholders now will return to their jilted first loves of cash and bonds as yields rise.
  — James MacKintosh, WSJ, 10 July 2017
• This love story comes with no guarantees: The Brickyard just may jilt him.
  — Washington Post, 25 May 2017
• The knee-jerk reaction to infidelity, most of the time, is to tell the person who got jilted to GTFO.
  — refinery29.com, 9 May 2018
• Getting jilted by Elon Musk’s Tesla wasn’t such a bad thing after all.
  — Steve Mollman, Fortune, 29 Feb. 2024
• The Pacers did not sound like a group jilted by a superstar who all but forced the franchise to trade him this past offseason.
  — Jim Ayello, Indianapolis Star, 25 Sep. 2017
• Emily, jilted by all her friends, ends up asking her mother Linda (Hawn, in her first movie role in 15 years) to go with her.
  — Will Leitch, New Republic, 10 May 2017
• Johnson, already jilted by George, didn’t have either in hand.
  — Lee Jenkins, SI.com, 1 July 2018
• Snatched R Jilted by her boyfriend, a young woman convinces her mother to join her on a trip to paradise that turns out to be a survival nightmare.
  — Guy Hanford, Ramona Sentinel, 17 May 2017
• Meanwhile, in Boston, millions of Celtics fans jilted by Kyrie are prepared to build Kemba a statue before he's even played a game.
  — Andrew Sharp, SI.com, 4 Sep. 2019
• Mahut was further jilted when Wimbledon denied him a singles wild card.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 14 July 2019
• Beanie Feldstein swoops in to steal the film, playing a cop and jilted lover of Qualley’s character Jamie, but even her presence isn’t capitalized upon.
  — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2024
• Trump left a trail of unpaid bills, jilted workers and everyday New Yorkers who saw through his shameless self-promotion.
  — Matt Sedensky, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2023
• Trump left a trail of unpaid bills, jilted workers, and everyday New Yorkers who saw through his shameless self-promotion.
  — Matt Sedensky, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Apr. 2023
• After all, Oregonians felt used, misled and jilted by the way the coach conducted himself in his one season in Eugene.
  — John Canzano | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 3 Nov. 2019
• Then came the 2004 season, which was marked by two controversies that left Cal and Auburn feeling jilted and put the polls that determined their fate in a burdensome position.
  — Ross Dellenger, SI.com, 12 July 2018
• Thomas isn't the only member of the Markle family who feels jilted by not receiving an invitation to the royal wedding.
  — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 19 Apr. 2018
• One of the most notorious tales surrounding the property involves two women, each jilted at the altar, who took their own lives in the same room several decades apart.
  — Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure, 13 Aug. 2023
• Therapists say that job rejection can lead to as much depression as being jilted by a prospective lover.
  — Phil Blair, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 May 2017
• Or at least that part of it that has been jilted, forsaken, forgotten and all the other desolate adjectives that led to the result of the 2016 Presidential election.
  — Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 8 Dec. 2017
• Wolper then eliminated the more dramatic Claudio-Hero plot, which finds Hero faking her own death after Claudio publicly jilts her.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 31 Mar. 2024
• Treviño said Lime’s suggestion that high city fees had played into its decision to leave would concern him more if only San Antonio had been jilted.
  — Bruce Selcraig, ExpressNews.com, 9 Jan. 2020
• The Afghans, for one, might feel justifiably jilted that the world’s media decamped from Kabul long ago, leaving so many useful atrocities unfilmed.
  — Paul D. Miller, Twin Cities, 23 Apr. 2017
• Dickens left some narrative threads for Klaus and her team to riff on creatively, namely, that Miss Havisham’s father was a wealthy brewer and that she was defrauded and jilted at the altar on her wedding day.
  — Anna Fixsen, ELLE Decor, 18 Apr. 2023
• In other words, Captain America himself has been jilted.
  — Marianne Garvey, CNN, 19 Apr. 2023
• Unrestricted free agency does not award consolation prizes to those who get jilted.
  — Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 21 Apr. 2018

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024