Example Sentences

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Insecurity has spawned coups whose leaders have jilted regional and Western states.

From Reuters • Oct. 3, 2023

I have jilted you shamefully, I own it; you are a female and unforgiving.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 by Various

"I should have jilted him, at once and for ever!" cried Mrs. Haughton.

From A Heart-Song of To-day by Savigny, Annie Gregg

I expect you have jilted dozens since then.

From The Keeper of the Door by Dell, Ethel M. (Ethel May)

"Yes," he said angrily, "and your wife would have jilted you, if I had proposed to her on the morning of your wedding-day."

From The Man Who Rose Again by Hocking, Joseph