Example sentences for: jar

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

  • When you enter the current show at the Museum of Modern Art, titled "Objects of Desire: The Modern Still Life," you find yourself in a small white room with only one painting on the wall, Cézanne's Still Life With a Ginger Jar and Eggplants (1890-94).

  • A smattering of reviewers griped about Jar Jar Binks, and the Village Voice was offended by the "blatant ethnic stereotype" behind Watto, "the hook-nosed merchant insect."

  • Consider this tidbit from Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture by Kathy Peiss, a just-published history of the American beauty industry:

  • While Einstein was being autopsied, his ophthalmologist, Dr. Henry Abrams, dropped by and filched Einstein's brown eyes as a keepsake, storing them in a jar in a Philadelphia bank vault.

  • When he steps onto a cruise ship carrying a set of explosive golf clubs and a jar of leeches, when he murmurs to the leeches in the bathtub as he applies them to his skin ("You take care of me, and I'll take care of the ship"), we know we have entered a world that the light of reason will never penetrate.


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