How to Use joust in a Sentence

joust

1 of 2 verb
  • The knights jousted against each other.
  • Who hasn’t faux-jousted at some point in their lives?
    — Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Midsize weevils also have a rough go of it, too small to joust and too large to sneak.
    — New York Times, 13 Aug. 2021
  • In the midst of a competitive race, the two men jousted with good humor and grace.
    — John T. Shaw, Twin Cities, 7 Dec. 2025
  • In the midst of a competitive race, the two men jousted with good humor and grace.
    — John T. Shaw, Mercury News, 4 Dec. 2025
  • In the fun segment, the pair feast, and get into the fighting and jousting spirit.
    — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 8 Sep. 2019
  • But what got me the most excited was the jousting tournament.
    — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 June 2023
  • Jen Psaki spent the last two decades jousting with journalists.
    — Michael M. Grynbaum, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2023
  • And then there are the jousting competitions (more on those below).
    — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2026
  • On day one, the new president jousts with the press over the size of his inauguration.
    — Michael Smerconish, Philly.com, 19 Jan. 2018
  • But no president has spent as much sustained time on television or jousting with the press.
    — New York Times, 12 Apr. 2020
  • Doodles of knights jousting with the creatures are common in the margins of medieval books.
    — Ella Riley-Adams, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Games include jousting, an obstacle course, bull riding and more.
    — Shane Harrison, ajc, 25 July 2019
  • 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
  • There will be jousting tournaments, stage acts and comedic performances.
    — Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • There will be jousting tournaments, stage acts and comedic performances.
    — Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 3 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • His unique beak-jousting technique, which enabled him to quickly displace his rivals.
    — ArsTechnica, 20 Apr. 2026
  • There will be knights jousting, live combat, living chess match, magic, comedy, and more.
    — Jennifer Boehm, sun-sentinel.com, 13 Nov. 2019
  • Visitors can see performers joust on horses, sword fight and compete in other games of skill.
    — Phil McCausland, NBC News, 29 June 2022
  • Each wants to prove himself, and for that to happen Dunk must triumph in a jousting tournament.
    — Sarah Larson, New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Males, who have no stingers, emerge first, establish territory and joust one another.
    — courant.com, 14 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • At a lavish banquet on the eve of a jousting tournament, lovers meet and revellers speculate about who will contend.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 18 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • At a lavish banquet on the eve of a jousting tournament, lovers meet and revelers speculate about who will contend.
    — James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 18 Feb. 2026
  • The countries also are jousting over management of the Panama Canal.
    — ABC News, 12 May 2026
  • Within hours of their queen’s death, female workers will begin to joust, fencing with their antennae, and nipping at each other’s heads.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 13 Apr. 2021

joust

2 of 2 noun
  • Queta will grasp, claw and joust with anyone near him.
    — Fred Katz, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2026
  • But his idea of rehearsal is no mere verbal joust around a table.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 30 July 2022
  • The joust is thrilling, both for the attendees watching and for those of us at home.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
  • See a live joust, bite into a turkey leg bigger than your face and browse the village shoppes.
    — Caroline Ritzie, The Enquirer, 28 Aug. 2025
  • There’s a joust that is mentioned as happening offstage.
    — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • Or will the trio of candidates jockeying for second place joust with each other?
    — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2021
  • Littlefinger had claimed Tyrion won it in a bet after Jaime lost a joust.
    — Matt Miller, Esquire, 7 Aug. 2017
  • Whether big or boutique, agencies parry and joust in wooing talent and sealing deals.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 23 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • But knights typically didn’t joust with women, which may be the most salient inference.
    — Kathleen Parker, The Denver Post, 9 Mar. 2017
  • His son, Prince Valarr, is shown participating at the joust at the end of the episode.
    — Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • Here, the joust is used as a means to impress a visiting King Ferdinand.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 12 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • The Endangered Cat Show Lords and ladies, jesters and jousts, horses and … big cats?
    — Kaitlyn Bancroft, The Know, 18 June 2019
  • That included leading by as many as nine in the third set on a joust from D-dos Salas and leading by four late in the fourth set.
    — Breven Honda, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 May 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Experience our legendary full-contact joust as courageous knights engage in battles of skill to entertain the Queen.
    — San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Aug. 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
  • There are micro-twists within the major ones, expressive fillips that blend confessions and aphorisms, and grand reflections along with jousts of seductive wit.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Shiny trumpets, trombones and saxophones shimmered under stadium lights as the musical joust continued.
    — Brandon Drenon, The Indianapolis Star, 25 Sep. 2022
  • That more aggressive posture has been exemplified in Lewis George's smaller jousts with the mayor over housing and public safety policies, too.
    — Phillip M. Bailey, USA Today, 16 June 2026
  • 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
  • And, online, the startups' advertisements hawking their wares often focus on hospitals and their periodic jousts with insurers.
    — Darius Tahir, NPR, 10 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • 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

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