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

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