Example sentences for: jakes

How can you use “jakes” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Jakes, who presides over a Dallas-based empire of books, tapes, and TV shows, wants to "heal" not just homosexuals, but all "men who are feminine in their mannerisms."

  • Mailer was not a critic of Southern literature, but he privately wondered whether posterity might not judge John Jakes a better novelist than Faulkner, sources close to Mailer tell Mailer.

  • My lord, if you will give me leave, I will tread this unbolted villain into mortar, and daub the wall of a jakes with him.

  • , in the chapter on “Bodily Effluvia”) where, for example, john, jakes, bog, crapper are said to “tend to the dysphemistic,” whatever that means.

  • Its exact origin is unascertained, but it is likely to have been a variant of jakes (with the indefinite article preceding it).


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