How to Use jape in a Sentence
jape
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Zings, barbs, and japes fly between the two, but the banter soon gives way to grand action set pieces.
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Entertainment Weekly,
10 Mar. 2026
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The camp hatred of Barney is really a leftover 1960s counterculture jape.
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Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
24 Jan. 2026
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Conversation topics centre less around what japes the chaps used to get up to at boarding school or what happened in the previous night’s rugby, and more about how everyone on the train wants Spurs to go down.
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Tim Spiers,
New York Times,
18 Jan. 2025
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That is when the japes really started, most prominently on a mid-season bonding trip to Barcelona when four players ‘borrowed’ a taxi after a late-night trip to McDonald’s.
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Nick Miller,
New York Times,
26 Oct. 2025
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Before this fifth season put him closer to the center of the action, Roddy had undoubtedly been a misfit among misfits at Slough House, a desk jockey who would hold court at his computer, issuing snide japes at anyone within earshot.
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Scott Tobias,
Vulture,
8 Oct. 2025
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