How to Use jilt in a Sentence

jilt

verb
  • She was crushed when he jilted her.
  • Ross's soothing words are jilted and mired by static; his brush strokes are jerky.
    — Sarah Rense, Esquire, 11 Apr. 2017
  • Johnson, already jilted by George, didn’t have either in hand.
    — Lee Jenkins, SI.com, 1 July 2018
  • Getting jilted by Elon Musk’s Tesla wasn’t such a bad thing after all.
    — Steve Mollman, Fortune, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Mahut was further jilted when Wimbledon denied him a singles wild card.
    — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 14 July 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • Unrestricted free agency does not award consolation prizes to those who get jilted.
    — Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 21 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Florida governor Ron DeSantis has shunned its members, and they are jilted.
    — Noah Rothman, National Review, 24 May 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Last October Microsoft was awarded a contract worth up to $10 billion for the system, jilting Amazon, the cloud-computing market leader.
    — Aaron Gregg, Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2020
  • Our Southern parents taught us that image carries a lot of weight, and there's power in a good name, so reevaluating the BayBears or perhaps recruiting a new team if we're ultimately jilted, may be the perfect time to start anew.
    — Leslie Anne Tarabella, AL.com, 23 Oct. 2017

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