(v. i.) To engage in mock combat on horseback, as two knights in the lists; to tilt.
(v. i.) A tilting match; a mock combat on horseback between two knights in the lists or inclosed field.
Example Sentences:
(1) Each Drop the Mic episode will feature four celebrities verbally jousting with each other with the audience choosing the winner.
(2) This was to have been a free-admission hit-and-giggle day before the night session but the weather forced the cancellation of John and Patrick McEnroe’s little joust with Michael Chang and Todd Martin (also wiping out the evening programme) so those who braved the elements got to see some proper tennis.
(3) Behind the verbal jousting and the on-screen stardust lies a bitter battle for broadband, television and phone customers between the two companies.
(4) Political jousting His reign began in May 2004 after his predecessor Greg Dyke left following the Hutton report.
(5) For their part, intellectuals who begin toeing a party line inevitably become less worthwhile, and political jousting can leave little time and space for serious, radical thinking.
(6) For the Conservatives, Gove is the man to influence the PM; his joust with the inquiry judge today will not surely be his last.
(7) DH Milan reject Chelsea’s £35m offer for Romagnoli Gray charged by FA over 2012 homophobic tweets Bamford joins Burnley on season-long loan 7) Lukaku returns on hunt for scoring touch Yannick Bolasie and Ashley Williams could make their Premier League debuts for Everton this weekend but the outcome of the joust with Stoke could depend to a large extent on the performance of a player who seemed to spend much of the summer trying to leave Goodison Park.
(8) Sometimes there's an atmosphere of surreal wit (during BMX jousting, for instance), and at other times it's as crass and basic as it could possibly be (eating 24 boiled eggs, and then regurgitating them with a mind to eating 24 more).
(9) Against a background of political jousting – which led to a six-year licence fee deal – continuing efficiency savings and moving 2,300 jobs to the BBC's new northern headquarters in Salford, Thompson has not had an easy time.
(10) I like to think of Childe Roland, the paladin whose journey to the Dark Tower forms the basis of my new book The Broken King , as on the fringes of the Arthurian court: perhaps he pricked past Arthur on the plain, had a friendly joust, and galloped off again, his helm glinting in the sunlight.
(11) A mid-air collision between jousting Greek and Turkish fighters in disputed airspace over the Aegean Sea yesterday threatened to reignite age old rivalries.
(12) While the two candidates jousted on television, cutlery clinked.
(13) From her viewpoint, David Davis, Liam Fox and Mr Johnson are all satisfactorily engaged in jousting among themselves and trying to run up a political scree slope rather than plotting to bring her down.
(14) From 2003-2012 The Daily Show brought home the best variety award and I don't know what the crew will do without it – maybe joust with their other dozens of awards.
(15) Telling off Trump might score him some short-term political points, pundits say – though the president tends to talk in off-scripted statements and in a stiff prose, heavy on protocol, which doesn’t lend itself to strong comments or verbal jousting.
(16) Listening more to what’s not being said, watching as the various factions on the right joust for power and influence.
(17) He was used and made to look ridiculous in front of those he governs.” Why Trump was invited and then treated so softly left pundits stupefied, especially since Peña Nieto, who is not known for verbal jousting or talking without scripts, missed such a good chance to improve his poor approval rating.
(18) In Thor , the bodacious nordic deity spends most of the movie worrying about a race of tall, antisocial creatures called The Frost Giants of Jotunheim, and does quite a bit of jousting with the testy emissaries of the US government, when the person he should really be worrying about is his brother, Loki.
(19) Rival Knights (Free + IAP) Jousting: pretty hard, whether in real life or in games – I was frequently brought to tears by the jousting section in Defender of the Crown as a child.
(20) Because Miliband had been hit first, and in a way likely to have crossed the line for many undecided voters (who, more so than their partisan cousins, tend to demand a civil and respectful tone from jousting politicians), he had permission from the voters to punch back, and punch back hard.
Oust
Definition:
(n.) See Oast.
(v. t.) To take away; to remove.
(v. t.) To eject; to turn out.
Example Sentences:
(1) This week's unconfirmed claims that Kim's uncle Jang Song Thaek had been ousted from power have refocused attention on the country's domestic affairs; some analysts say Jang was associated with reform .
(2) Over the past year, under the rule of Abdel Fatah al-Sisi , security forces have ousted street sellers from the core of the city centre and prominent locations such as Ramses Square, home to Cairo’s main train terminal.
(3) They head a list of casualties at the top echelons of the financial industry including UBS's ousted chief executive Peter Wuffli and Bear Stearns's former chief operating officer Warren Spector.
(4) The top of the fence can also be manipulated in certain ways such as including curvature outward at the top of the fence to make scaling it much more difficult for most.” Some critics, including Washington DC congressional delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, have warned against excessive fortification, but the report argues: “We recognise all the competing considerations that may go into questions regarding the fence, but believe that protection of the President and the White House must be the higher priority.” “Every additional second of response time provided by a fence that is more difficult to climb makes a material difference in ensuring the President’s safety and protecting the symbol that is the White House.” The panel also urges that a new head of secret service, to replace ousted head Julia Pierson, be brought in from outside the agency, ensuring it is better staffed and trained in future.
(5) The Hashd al-Shaabi, a conglomerate of primarily Shia militias that has played a key role in ousting Isis from cities such as Tikrit, appeared to take a backseat in the liberation of Ramadi, ceding the task primarily to the Iraqi elite counter-terrorism force, local police, the Iraqi army and a small group of Sunni tribesmen, backed by US-led airstrikes.
(6) Though no doubt he reviles Goldsmith’s racism, he doesn’t detest it quite enough to lend a hand to oust him.
(7) Kurdish peshmerga forces backed by the US-led coalition have launched attacks on Islamic State east of Mosul as the campaign to oust the militants stepped up with three offensives across Iraq and Syria.
(8) Ian Macfarlane signals frontbench ambition after defecting to Nationals Read more But the deputy leader of the Nationals, Barnaby Joyce, pushed back at the criticism, saying it was not unprecedented for people to move between the Coalition parties and noted it was not as significant as ousting a prime minister.
(9) Compaoré was 36 when he seized power in a coup in which Thomas Sankara, his former friend and one of Africa’s most revered leaders, was ousted and assassinated.
(10) Some MPs have been threatening to oust either the prime minister or the chancellor if poor poll ratings have not been reversed by next year.
(11) One of the two last strongholds of Gaddafi loyalists, the town of Bani Walid, has finally been contained, Libya's interim government has claimed, leaving only parts of the ousted tyrant's birthplace out of rebel reach.
(12) A headteacher the dossier claimed the plotters had ousted in fact left 20 years ago.
(13) • The original headline – 'Gun lobby campaign ousts Democrats in Colorado and Connecticut' – was amended on Wednesday September 11 2013.
(14) The jet engine maker, based mostly in Derby and Bristol, a nnounced the fresh job cuts on Tuesday as it ousted Mark Morris, its long-serving finance director .
(15) The campaign director, Dominic Cummings , who recently survived a reported effort to oust him, the chief executive, Matthew Elliott, and the company secretary, Victoria Woodcock, are also stepping down from the board.
(16) Morsi, Egypt’s first freely elected president, was ousted by the military in July 2013 after days of mass street protests by Egyptians demanding that he be removed because of his divisive policies.
(17) Islamists in Mali threatened Saturday to "open the doors of hell" for French citizens, in a statement following the adoption by the UN Security Council of a plan to oust al-Qaida linked militants from occupied territory.
(18) Unlike a similar tale across Stanley Park recently, when Kevin Mirallas ousted Leighton Baines and missed from the spot, Balotelli coolly sent Cenk Gonen the wrong way and Liverpool were reprieved.
(19) Moreover, the abrupt ousting of Jones, and the way the news was delivered, has struck seasoned Welsh observers as typical and unsatisfactory.
(20) It's been less than a month since Dov Charney was ousted as American Apparel's CEO after numerous accusations of sexual harassment, and now the company has rehired him as a paid "strategic consultant" – and will let him keep his huge salary .