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Example sentences for "jist"

Lexicographically close words:
jint; jintleman; jints; jinx; jiss; jitney; jitneys; jitsu; job
  1. I shall have nothing to do with killin' Hadley; you may jist put a peg there, and say no more about it.

  2. Didn't you jist tell her that you was her friend?

  3. Now jist advance one step further and see if I don't.

  4. Den I jist wait till dey git by an' run ebery step home.

  5. Jist as Jack spoke the pudden appeared to take the hint, for it quietly hopped out, and as the house was directly on the road-side, turned down towards the bridge, the very way that ould Harry went.

  6. Well, it’s jist as good for an ager—it’s a powerful sweat.

  7. But the bar didn’t seem to care shucks for him, for he jist sot the old rifle rite back agin the saplin’, and walked off on his hind legs jist like any human.

  8. I’ve jist got my hand in; I wish I had a pond full of ganders here now, jist to show you how I could make their heads fly.

  9. When he’d done scrapen’ off the ground, it looked jist like two bulls had been pawing up the dirt, I give you my word it did.

  10. Well, I jist begin sidelin’ up, an’ he begin sidelin’ up.

  11. Ye'll jist gang to the Salmon for a feow days till we see hoo things'll gang.

  12. I'll jist start up this fire and go out and see.

  13. Ye hae a gey fair beast o' yer ain, my father says, and ye maun jist ride wi' her whaurever she gangs.

  14. I was jist fain to du something like wash the feet o' her.

  15. There was naething intil the place, jist naething ava!

  16. Weel, it's jist this: I'm thinkin 'at some may be nearer the deid nor ithers.

  17. Jist heft him, old feller," urged one of them.

  18. Stand clear dar behind, and get out ob de way in front, I'm jist going to take a run and butt dat nigger out of de State.

  19. Now, Missis, look here, jist give dat chap a shillin.

  20. You jist run; you'll find I'm nothing but an alligator.

  21. They're jist about as much out of their reckoning as the pig that took to swimming for his health and cut his throat trying it on.

  22. Somehow I rader guess I should ha let dar box fall and smashiated de contents, so I jist give dat white trash de job jest to let de poor crittur arn a shillin.

  23. I conceit their min'stry have got jist about into as considerable a tarnation nasty fix, as a naked nigger in the stocks when the mosquitoes are steaming up a little beyond high pressure.

  24. I hav written sevral very poplar obituary notisses ov the krow, but find that i hav stated a good deal about them that wazn't jist so, and left unsed mutch that waz true.

  25. But it would ha split the seven sides of you wid the laffin' to behould, jist then all at once, the consated behavior of Mounseer Maiter-di-dauns.

  26. I gived her jist thin right in the face with both eyes.

  27. There's jist one thing that you forgot, yer honour.

  28. I was jist switherin'," said Tim, "what a wontherful thing ut is that a man kin always hev worruk whin he invints ut.

  29. Ah, but I can shet my eyes and see jist how Gineral Pickett looked when he led us agin your 2d corps, (he had noticed the red clover leaf pinned on our coats) over at Gettysburg on that 3d of July.

  30. We thought we were going to drive you fellers back 'cross the Rapidan, as we had done many times before, but Ulysses jist shut his teeth down tighter on his cigar and kept moving by the left flank.

  31. Weel, weel noo, I'm no' jist that set up wi' them myself.

  32. Pit sail tae her an' she'll jist scoff everything aff her decks.

  33. When ye wants a cruise around, ye jist turn intae yin o' them albatrosses.

  34. Damn yer bloody eyes, we'd ha' been intae that fella if Ah hadna jist spied her!

  35. Th' Sarmania's jist cam' in an' your faither an' my faither is no aboard her.

  36. Me'n Jack jist tumbled intae it, and when the mast went, the dory went intae the water.

  37. We came up on deck when yon steamer whustled, an' we ran fur the dory which Donald and Jack had jist left hanging on the rail.

  38. Jist got put aff a schooner a wee while ago an' we've had tae rin like blazes tae catch this wee boat here.

  39. Jist wait in the office here until I want ye!

  40. Your coming to me for such a thing is jist as big a piece o' presumption as if the mother of yin of those pavement-artists came tae me on the same mission!

  41. Jist let me know how much it is; I s'pose it ain't more than twenty or thirty cents.

  42. Here, young man, jist figger onto that, will you, and let me know how much the expense is.

  43. He came for her, 'nd when he went to take her she seemed to know she wasn't jist lent or hired, and such mournful whinnying I never heard before nor since.

  44. Griner and me jist lit out for Wells' place, but about a half a mile before we got to his house we came on the awfulest sight eyes ever see.

  45. Now that's jist a parallel passidge wid the one out ov Tartulion that me and Hayes smashed the heretics on in Clarendon Sthreet.

  46. If we were to follow them blind guides we might jist as well turn heretics at onc't.

  47. I will, in a minit, your honor, whin I jist spake a word to my comrades here.

  48. To be sure, now that the scalpeens is sowld, there's no use in goin' to Fingal, and we may as well jist go home.

  49. Howandiver, I mustn't forget that we left his Riv'rence and his Holiness sitting fornenst one another in the parlor ov the Vatican, jist afther mixing their second tumbler.

  50. Jist in the Auld Kirk, sir, but I belang tae the Wee Frees.

  51. We live in little 'oles jist like rabbits, an' the old Turks keep throwin' nasty things called bombs.


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

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    jist like; jist what