How to Use joust in a Sentence

joust

1 of 2 verb

• The knights jousted against each other.
• In the fun segment, the pair feast, and get into the fighting and jousting spirit.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 8 Sep. 2019
• Midsize weevils also have a rough go of it, too small to joust and too large to sneak.
  — New York Times, 13 Aug. 2021
• As usual, fresh coinages joust with groaners and clichés.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2022
• First, Trump gets bogged down into long, back-and-forth jousts with the touché Washington press corps.
  — Lewis Libby, National Review, 29 Apr. 2020
• The young boy goes all Arthurian on Val's ass turning the bat, which broke when Tony tried to defend himself against, to joust her to death.
  — Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 2 Oct. 2020
• On day one, the new president jousts with the press over the size of his inauguration.
  — Michael Smerconish, Philly.com, 19 Jan. 2018
• Doodles of knights jousting with the creatures are common in the margins of medieval books.
  — Ella Riley-Adams, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2023
• But what got me the most excited was the jousting tournament.
  — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 June 2023
• Trying to attach a recording device to a sperm whale is a bit like trying to joust while racing on a Jet Ski.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
• But the spymasters who have jousted with Trump have no claim to purity.
  — Jefferson Morley, The New Republic, 16 Sep. 2019
• Jen Psaki spent the last two decades jousting with journalists.
  — Michael M. Grynbaum, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2023
• Reneging on deals, jousting in bidding wars, and tearing apart competitors is, for them, a way of life.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 2 Apr. 2023
• Those factors certainly cannot hurt, along with an unteachable instinct to joke or joust at just the right time.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2022
• At the bottom of the ocean 400 million years ago, a knight in shining armor may have used a long trident to joust against the competition and win the hand of a fair lady.
  — Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Jan. 2023
• Burrows, who was one of the speakers at Saturday’s service, recounted how the two used to joust over resources and use of the school gym that the boys and girls program shared.
  — Adam Lichtenstein, sun-sentinel.com, 3 July 2021
• But no president has spent as much sustained time on television or jousting with the press.
  — New York Times, 12 Apr. 2020
• Few veteran staff members remain who have served in the majority and done the grinding work of jousting with the White House.
  — Carl Hulse, New York Times, 22 June 2019
• Mr. Xi is most unlikely to joust directly with Mr. Trump on Twitter.
  — Chris Buckley, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2017
• On Tuesday, though, Gelsinger seemed eager to joust with Nvidia and other tech rivals – but without mentioning any by name.
  — oregonlive, 27 Sep. 2022
• Beginning his career as a backup singer and songwriter, the crooner would rather work alongside his peers than joust with them.
  — Keyaira Boone, Essence, 18 Aug. 2021
• More human interaction, to be sure, but a return to the courtroom also revives the chance to joust with each other, through questions addressed to the lawyers.
  — Joan Biskupic, CNN, 8 Oct. 2021
• January the Seventeenth: Hired knight to motivate me to joust more and insure proper lance form.
  — Kate Greathead, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2017
• Visitors can see performers joust on horses, sword fight and compete in other games of skill.
  — Phil McCausland, NBC News, 29 June 2022
• By then, his litany of health issues included gout, obesity and leg ulcers from a jousting wound that had festered for years.
  — V.m. Braganza, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Aug. 2023
• The look boasted a colorful yesteryear graphic print of armored knights, jousting horsemen, and a canoodling prince and princess.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 7 Aug. 2019
• There will be knights jousting, live combat, living chess match, magic, comedy, and more.
  — Jennifer Boehm, sun-sentinel.com, 13 Nov. 2019
• Games include jousting, an obstacle course, bull riding and more.
  — Shane Harrison, ajc, 25 July 2019
• The Celtics and 76ers now joust for LeBron's vacated Eastern dominance.
  — Greg Cote, miamiherald, 11 July 2018
• There are emotional spikes tied to big revelations and jousting on the stand, but mostly this isn’t a conventional courtroom drama.
  — Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2023

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joust

2 of 2 noun

• Nielsen is in the midst of a months-long joust with some of its biggest clients, the nation’s TV networks.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 14 Mar. 2022
• The Endangered Cat Show Lords and ladies, jesters and jousts, horses and … big cats?
  — Kaitlyn Bancroft, The Know, 18 June 2019
• Three jousting matches will take place each day: The princesses' joust is at noon and the princes trot on at 2:30 p.m.
  — Kimi Robinson, The Arizona Republic, 2 Feb. 2022
• The result of her June joust with Biden was she, more than any of the 20 candidates onstage, leaped in the rankings.
  — oregonlive.com, 31 July 2019
• But his idea of rehearsal is no mere verbal joust around a table.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 30 July 2022
• Far more interesting will be the joust for the wild-card game, a race in which the Red Sox have bulled their way back into over the last few months.
  — Andy McCullough, latimes.com, 13 July 2019
• But some in the industry believe that the appeal of seeing Mr. Biden and Mr. Trump joust for the first time will be hard to resist.
  — Michael M. Grynbaum, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2020
• Here, the joust is used as a means to impress a visiting King Ferdinand.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 12 Oct. 2020
• Littlefinger had claimed Tyrion won it in a bet after Jaime lost a joust.
  — Matt Miller, Esquire, 7 Aug. 2017
• The Zambonis that drive on the ice have jousts mounted on their sides to simulate a duel.
  — Ken Belson, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2018
• There's no better way to build a rivalry than a playoff series, and this should be quite a first-round joust.
  — Curtis Zupke, latimes.com, 9 Apr. 2018
• The festivities include a real joust, a live-flight bird of prey exhibition, games of skill to play and more.
  — courant.com, 4 Oct. 2019
• Or will the trio of candidates jockeying for second place joust with each other?
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2021
• But knights typically didn’t joust with women, which may be the most salient inference.
  — Kathleen Parker, The Denver Post, 9 Mar. 2017
• Whether big or boutique, agencies parry and joust in wooing talent and sealing deals.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 23 Oct. 2022
• Here, each verbal joust between D and B-Real (rhyming partners rather than each other’s hype man) and Morello crunch crackles like fire.
  — Philly.com, 14 Sep. 2017
• Booker said in the postgame that Thompson repeatedly bragged during their verbal joust that he's got four championship rings, and Thompson barked at the Suns bench on his way to the locker room.
  — Dana Scott, The Arizona Republic, 27 Oct. 2022
• This year's theme is Feats of Strength, and will feature a gladiator joust, punching arcade, thumb wrestling, tattoo contest, climbing wall and a selfie booth.
  — Post-Tribune, 8 Feb. 2018
• The Red Sox took a seven-game winning streak into their weekend joust with the Yankees on Friday, proudly wearing their yellow and powder blue jerseys.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Sep. 2021
• The joust-and-eat prototype for Medieval Times was created in 1973 by an entrepreneur who wanted to capture the tourist trade in Majorca, Spain.
  — Kim Severson, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2018
• Experience our legendary full-contact joust as courageous knights engage in battles of skill to entertain the Queen.
  — San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Aug. 2022
• The answers demonstrate Trump's popularity in the Bluegrass State, as the two rivals joust in Kentucky's off-year election for governor.
  — Phillip M. Bailey, The Courier-Journal, 17 July 2019
• Biden's announcement comes as he and Trump joust over whose economic vision is better for the country during the crisis of a pandemic, high unemployment and trade tensions with China.
  — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 10 July 2020
• Daemon, clad in elaborate dragon armor, trolls Hightower by challenging his son and using his joust to trip the young Hightower's horse, injuring him.
  — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 22 Aug. 2022
• Competing in a celebratory joust at French court, Henry received a fatal injury when his younger opponent’s lance struck his helmet, leaving splinters in his eye and head.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Sep. 2022
• Stocks have been churning recently as worries about sticky inflation joust against data suggesting the economy remains more resilient than feared.
  — Stan Choe, ajc, 17 Feb. 2023
• The interactive festival includes jousts, a mermaid lagoon, beautiful crafts from metalsmiths, woodworkers and leather artists (to name just a few) and entertainment on 27 stages.
  — Clare Miers, star-telegram, 8 May 2018
• The role of public-interest oversight is not to mediate special-interest jousts, but to protect consumers, better understood as citizens.
  — WSJ, 14 Dec. 2017
• Shiny trumpets, trombones and saxophones shimmered under stadium lights as the musical joust continued.
  — Brandon Drenon, The Indianapolis Star, 25 Sep. 2022
• While most of the joust competitors have fairly basic or traditional armor, Daemon enters the competition wearing a helmet covered with ornate designs and protruding dragon wings.
  — WIRED, 24 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024