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Example sentences for "jump"

Lexicographically close words:
juleps; jumble; jumbled; jumbles; jumbling; jumped; jumper; jumpers; jumpin; jumping
  1. The horse was shipped from Rhode Island in a sloop, from which he managed to jump overboard, swim ashore, and return home.

  2. It will leap 30 feet at one jump notwithstanding it is but 3 months old.

  3. My Whittle that is fringed & my Jump & my blew Short Coate.

  4. Save your strength for a last jump when you hear me yell.

  5. Harvard will take the high jump and the two hundred and twenty, and we'll get the shot and pole-vault.

  6. Now, if I turn this searchlight away for an instant, he'll jump on me, and there you are.

  7. He wanted to jump into the subject without waiting for Green to have his say, for he was greatly interested, but prudence told him to listen to the forester first.

  8. Don't shoot unless you kill him, for he'll jump at me then for sure.

  9. Don't jump when it strikes the ground," Ned commanded.

  10. I am a sort of man who would jump to reach the top of a mountain.

  11. Those who jump into the same pond generally come out the same colour.

  12. In the desperate hope that he might jump into a carriage with Rhoda, he entered one of the second-class compartments; a fact not only foreign to his tastes and his habits, but somewhat disgraceful, as he thought.

  13. Newspapers and public jump on me, will they?

  14. Have your men ready to jump out as soon as the alarm comes in.

  15. Duc d'Orleans made me jump into his coach, which was waiting for him, and took me to the Palais Royal, where we began to speak seriously upon the affairs of my embassy.

  16. Their garden was separate from his only by a thick hedge; their fowls could jump over it.

  17. There was a black year when the things of this world, especially its pastimes, took such a grip of Gavin that he said to Margaret he would rather be good at the high jump than the author of "The Pilgrim's Progress.

  18. What else makes them ken to jump a verse now and then when giving out a psalm?

  19. While still out of sight the trap stopped, and I heard some one jump from it.

  20. She says every one of them would jump at you, like a bird at a berry.

  21. And I saw him," said Birse, "put up his hand atween him and the Book, as if he thocht it was to jump at him.

  22. The Little Minister's jump is always spoken of as a brave act in the glen, but at such times I am silent.

  23. I marvelled long over Gavin's jump from Ezra to Genesis, and at this his first philippic against Woman, but I have known the cause for many a year.

  24. I have a rare job for you if you will jump into the machine.

  25. He had no sooner said this than he tried to jump out of the trap.

  26. As it was, he may be said to have forced them to jump with him.

  27. Why didn't they jump on us when they had the chance?

  28. A hand fell familiarly on her shoulder, and a coarse voice laughed something in her ear that made her jump up with an artificial little shriek of pleasure.

  29. In his breast John's heart seemed suddenly to give a jump that choked him.

  30. An' it ain't ever made me jump through any window as I remember of, Johnny!

  31. Jump up, and we'll take home the fatted calf.

  32. And when I came I'd hold my arms out and you'd jump into them.

  33. Philologists are very apt to jump at contending meteorological explanations of mice and such small deer without real necessity, and an anthropologist is very apt to jump at an equally unnecessary and perhaps equally undemonstrated totem.

  34. My nerves will jump clear through my skin before I get to the city!

  35. You must not jump so hastily to your conclusions, Miss Lawton," she said.

  36. And he jump too and tide bring 'em to Brookgreen.

  37. Some of dem jump over board en try to get home, but dey couldn' swim en go down.

  38. Dat light now and den jump right in front of us.

  39. Tilda sees my dangerment, and she jump in dat deep water and pull me from under dat raff.

  40. I say, 'Ma, if dey been try to beat me, I would a jump up en bite dem.

  41. I remember I hear tell dat my old stepfather been gone to de mill to grind some corn en when he was comin down de road, two big Yankees jump out de bushes side de road en tell him stop dere.

  42. You know if'n a foundered person will jump over a stick of burning lightwood, it will make um feel better.

  43. I had de baby in my arms, and when I start toward de door with de baby, he jump out at me!

  44. And Lilly, almost invariably curled over a book, would jump up and take stand tensely against the wall so that when the room door opened it would swing back, concealing her.

  45. She wanted to jump and had a ludicrous vision of herself landing down in the cream of white shoulders and crashing through the U of one of those immaculate shirt fronts.

  46. He became cold with the thought that she might jump before he could get to her, and he was off his horse and by her side with the quickness of a military training.

  47. He looked up very calmly, but the moment he looked up, jump he did.

  48. He locks them up in the barracks where they used to argufy and makes them jump out of the windows.

  49. There was a burst of laughter at the words, for the lieutenant's father cringed to all the powers that be; he was a man of supple intellect, accustomed to jump with every change of government, and his son took after him.

  50. By this simple illustration we have made an induction coil which may be used for making a high tension jump spark.

  51. This is not the case with a high tension current, where it will leap across and produce the flash known as the jump spark.

  52. A current of sufficiently high voltage is used to cause the current to jump across the space between the separated ends of a conductor.

  53. While magnetos are used with the low tension system, for the reasons stated, they are especially necessary with the Jump Spark method.

  54. A glance right and left showed that there was no more assailable point within reach, so Croz gave out the unwelcome intelligence that if we wished to get over we must jump and take our chance.

  55. We chose the obvious alternative of a jump to the curb, which was, I suppose, about 15 feet below us and made of steep ice with a deep and deceptive covering of snow.

  56. There was one instant, notwithstanding, while two Injins were assisting Mary Warren to jump from the wagon, when my incognito was in great danger.

  57. I thought she intended to jump out of the vehicle, as a place no longer fit for her.

  58. I thought by the sudden jump of my uncle, and the manner he instinctively felt where he ought to have had a pistol, to meet such a crisis, that he believed himself already in the hands of the Philistines.

  59. I raced it, and managed to jump into a carriage just as it drew out of the station.

  60. Hours seemed to pass--the pain was past enduring; then the kindly cleft yawned once more, allowing him to jump into the garden below.

  61. Then jump in first class with third ticket.

  62. I felt my heart jump and I could not see clearly.

  63. He was so indignant that day he could hardly work, and would jump up every minute and exclaim: "Joseph, I did like those Bourbons, but this crowd of beggars has disgusted me with them already.

  64. After all, prospective fathers-in-law are only human and as likely as any other class to jump to damaging conclusions.

  65. Jump in and I'll get you there with a quarter of an hour in hand.

  66. By a jump in his logic Tabs began to suspect that she must be beautiful.

  67. Well, we wondered about it all night, and had our breakfast sent up to our room, and had it charged, expecting that when the bill came in we would have to jump into the ocean, as we had no gun to kill ourselves with.

  68. Every man, woman and child contains more than a million fleas, and as they can't scratch all the time, they keep on the move, hoping the fleas will jump off on somebody else.

  69. Mind what you are doing there," cried the lieutenant sharply; "jump aboard, my man.

  70. I declare there were times when I felt disposed to jump overboard and to swim on with the despatches.


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