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Example sentences for "jackknife"

Lexicographically close words:
jacketed; jacketing; jackets; jackies; jacking; jackmen; jackpine; jackpot; jackrabbit; jackrabbits
  1. Provis, who had been asleep too, staggered up at the noise I made, and in an instant I saw his jackknife shining in his hand.

  2. Scotty took out his jackknife and probed with the largest blade.

  3. Again they examined the entire location with great care, and Scotty probed seams in the rock with his jackknife blade.

  4. They frayed one end with a jackknife to make the torch.

  5. Scotty used his jackknife to probe at cracks in the rocky hillside.

  6. Trot liked Cap'n Bill and had a great deal of confidence in his wisdom, and a great admiration for his ability to make tops and whistles and toys with that marvelous jackknife of his.

  7. Cap'n Bill, and then he took a jackknife from his coat pocket and opened the big blade, afterward handing it to the queen.

  8. Zircon got out a jackknife and began to probe into cracks.

  9. Rick used his jackknife to probe every suspicious crack or chip, but without success.

  10. Then he pulled out his jackknife and felt its sharp edge with his thumb.

  11. All summer long Johnnie had kept his jackknife sharp as a razor, ready to carve his initials on Mr. Turtle's hard shell whenever the chance came.

  12. This cheered her considerably and she hurried to scrape together a heap of seaweed, while Cap'n Bill cut up the fish with his jackknife and got it ready for cooking.

  13. Then he took his big jackknife from his pocket and cut the melon open.

  14. Opening the jackknife he cut from one of the skins a large circular piece, and at regular intervals near the edge of this made small slits.

  15. Then with his left hand he succeeded, after several attempts, in lifting himself sufficiently to relieve the strain of his body, and with the jackknife in his right hand cut the line where it circled his body below the arms.

  16. We met in lonely places by stealth, and parted like conspirators; we couldn't buy a jackknife or build a kite without throwing an air of mystery and guilt over the transaction.

  17. A jackknife in his expert hand was a whole chest of tools.

  18. And Johnnie Green never guessed that his finding his jackknife was nothing but an accident.

  19. And I'd be pretty angry if you sent me off the wrong way to find a jackknife that wasn't nearly so good.

  20. The jackknife brought to murderous sharpness, the mistress of the bakery declared that the others could wait.

  21. Gimme your jackknife and I'll sharpen it just for luck, so your ma'll see I mean business!

  22. Wimmen are kind by natur," said the sailor, shutting his jackknife with a jerk, the only sign of impatience yet visible.

  23. He wandered down to the shore, seated himself upon the turf of a broken bank, and took from his pocket the jackknife and piece of wood that he had stowed away there.

  24. On a lanyard around my waist hung a huge jackknife with a can-opener attachment.

  25. We were making straight for each other; as we met we almost brushed sleeves; then, with no more than a glance at each other, we passed on; but you may be sure that I had my jackknife in the proper hand.

  26. Wriggling on my belly like a snake, I drew myself toward the smelling carcass, cut off enough with my jackknife to do the section, brought it back, and we ate it.

  27. A man who could interrupt a deal involving upward of a hundred thousand dollars to try to sell a jackknife certainly was not of a caliber to give serious worry to an astute business man.

  28. Mr. Blossom drew a jackknife from his pocket and began leisurely to sharpen a pencil.

  29. Then he got up, jerked Mr. Blossom's old jackknife from the post where it had been abandoned, and pocketed it.

  30. Cap'n Bill; and then he took a jackknife from his coat pocket and opened the big blade, afterward handing it to the queen.

  31. Illustration] Trot liked Cap'n Bill and had a great deal of confidence in his wisdom, and a great admiration for his ability to make tops and whistles and toys with that marvelous jackknife of his.

  32. But he had no confidence in the flimsy birch bark; so he got out his jackknife and bade Billy get out his.

  33. In one pocket was a pipe, a rusted jackknife and what had once been a piece of tobacco.

  34. Illustration] Find a good straight corn-stalk, and with your jackknife cut four slits from joint to joint, as seen in the upper figure.

  35. Illustration] No boy feels himself perfectly at home if he has not one pocket at least full of strings, and a good sharp jackknife at his command.

  36. Although the jackknife often gets lost, the string is usually at hand, and most boys will probably be glad to learn how a good strong cord can be broken without injury to the hands.

  37. After the others of the party came on board, we soon fired them with our enthusiasm, and every bit of available wood and every jackknife was brought into use.

  38. I observed that the jackknife trembled in his hand.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jackknife" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.