Example sentences for: jar

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

  • The priest is named Thomas Aquinas--not, disappointingly, the reincarnated author of Summa Theologica but some old geezer who has cut out his own tongue and put it in a mayonnaise jar for reasons that it would take a second viewing of End of Days for me to figure out.

  • 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).

  • That's one lesson of Hope in a Jar , a history of American beauty culture from the late-19 th to the mid-20 th century, a period when the pursuit of improved looks was transformed from a matter of folk recipes whispered from woman to woman to a multibillion dollar industry.

  • Having removed Albert Einstein's brain, pathologist Thomas Harvey chopped it into 240 pieces and stored it in a cookie jar in his basement, often shipping slabs (mailed in mayonnaise jars) to brain researchers eager to count glia and neurons.

  • Morris' distance from his subject implies condescension--Leuchter looks like something in a jar.


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