Example sentences for: jars

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

  • 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.

  • These Aunt Jemima cookie jars and Amos and Andy faces, dented and scarred with use, stare back at us as unnervingly as Diane Arbus freaks, but with the added accusation, at least to white viewers, that you made us this way.

  • You’ll see, too, the massive church, the monks’ pharmacy with its collection of 18th-century jars, their library, and the guests’ dining room.

  • The main street, Queen Street, pays tribute to the Anglo-Saxon myth with its clock tower, white clapboard and red-brick houses, the grand Prince of Wales Hotel, tea shops serving buns and buttered scones, and the lovingly restored Niagara Apothecary (1866) displaying old-fashioned medicine jars in walnut cabinets under ornamental crystal gaslights.

  • Countless urns and jars were decorated with drawings of his heroic exploits, but in fact he belongs to myth rather than to history.


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