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Example sentences for "jilted"

Lexicographically close words:
jigs; jigsaw; jij; jills; jilt; jilting; jilts; jima; jimp; jine
  1. If she had been jilted for the sake of another woman it would have been quite a different matter.

  2. The poor girl, it was hinted, had been jilted to such an extent by Bob, that she had broken her heart, and pined away and died.

  3. This Spring, they say, she jilted Raymond Vandyck, and people who ought to know, say that they were engaged.

  4. Heath began to absorb the latest news, looking as little like a jilted lover or a despairing swain, as possible.

  5. You broke with her because she jilted the man she was about to marry.

  6. But anyhow Lady Jo couldn't talk, for she has just jilted Ivor Yardley the K.

  7. Yet you might be embarrassed nevertheless, if you found that you had raised expectations which you could not fulfil; and if you found yourself accused of having jilted this lady, if all her friends were to say you had used her very ill.

  8. I was jilted once and away, I acknowledge--but forgive and forget.

  9. If he has jilted her, he is a scoundrel," said Erskine.

  10. They say he was once jilted and that turned him into a misogamist.

  11. It was said that Lord Dumbello had jilted Miss Grantly.

  12. Sometimes a jilted lover sues his fickle sweetheart; or a forlorn maiden seeks satisfaction from her betrothed spouse.

  13. For when the "said Cocke" heard that the widow had jilted him he said "it would be his death.

  14. Why, she has jilted you, and now flies at higher game, and nothing but a prince of the blood will satisfy her!

  15. I have proof to convince Le Gardeur that Angélique has not jilted him.

  16. Old Hocquart wore night-caps in the daytime, took snuff every minute, and jilted a lady in France because she had not the dower of a duchess to match his hoards of wealth!

  17. Others, more compassionate or more spiteful, with a touch of envy, said they hoped it was true, for he had been "jilted by a young lady in the city!

  18. He's a blackguard; I tell you he's a blackguard; he jilted my wife's sister.

  19. You jilted her and drove her mad, and now you are trying to shelter yourself behind a tissue of falsehood.

  20. She was twenty years younger than my wife--jilted her a week before her marriage, and would never give a reason, and she went mad and is in a madhouse how.

  21. He was talked of for Court favour, and hoped to win it; but the Court favour jilted him.

  22. Should I be disappointed—I owed your husband no love, my dear, for he had jilted me in the most scandalous way; and I thought there would be time to declare the little weaver’s son for the true heir.

  23. But Fortune shook her swift wings and jilted him too: and so his friends, instead of being angry with him, and jealous of him, were kind and fond of honest Gay.

  24. Of her hundred adorers she had not chosen one for a husband; and those who had asked had been jilted by her; and more still had left her.

  25. It was to no purpose that he tried to frighten Elizabeth by representing that a jilted prince would be converted into an angry enemy.

  26. Only fancy, Lotta--to have been jilted by a Jew!

  27. It will be a fine thing to be jilted by a Jew.

  28. Do you think that I or your uncle could have you at our house when all the world shall know that you have been jilted by a Jew?

  29. That her niece should have promised herself to a Jew was dreadful, and that her niece should be afterwards jilted by the Jew was a poor remedy.

  30. The Jew, at any rate, shall not be jilted by the Christian.

  31. I must further acquaint you, that before I Jilted him, there had been the greatest Intimacy between us for an Year and half together, during all which time I cherished his Hopes, and indulged his Flame.

  32. A mercenary girl jilts her lover because he is poor, and then her new fiance loses his fortune, and the jilted lover succeeds to a dukedom!

  33. All summer the small bird was king; hedgerows twittered; crumbs were scorned; man was jilted for slug and worm.

  34. She had jilted Sidney; outsiders might not know it; but she had treated him in a way which he and his were never likely to forgive.

  35. Suppose she had jilted this man, and laughed at the other?

  36. Three times have I fought duels for women, twelve I jilted and nine jilted me.

  37. Twelve women I jilted, nine jilted me, but not one of them all have I loved as I love you.

  38. She's sweet on James, after having jilted him twelve years ago!

  39. When you next see your friend, Captain Bennydeck, give him my compliments, Mr. Randal, and say I congratulate him on having been jilted by my daughter.

  40. The true-born Briton bowed by instinct before the woman who had jilted him, when she presented herself in the character of a lord's mother.

  41. I jilted you: it is a word quite hideous, like flirt, but just as never in my life did I flirt, so I have not jilted you in the hideous sense.

  42. You see I jilted my darling Jack, to marry into your family.

  43. I got engaged to Jack which I ought to have done originally; and fourthly, I jilted him and married Waldenech.

  44. He had loved a young lady, and had been accepted;--and then the young lady had jilted him.

  45. III Twenty years earlier, when Mrs. Bowen was Miss Lina Ridgely, she used to be the friend and confidante of the girl who jilted Colville.

  46. Her daughter Margaret had been jilted and was in despair, had taken to her bed with every resolution to die, and was growing paler and paler.

  47. When you were jilted you came again to me and to the idleness of this little town.

  48. Her daughter Margaret, had been jilted and was in despair, had taken to her bed with every resolution to die, and was growing paler and paler.


  49. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jilted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    forsaken; loveless; lovelorn; rejected; spurned