Example sentences for: jujitsu

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

  • Experts in striking martial arts such as karate and tae kwon do, who fancied themselves the world's greatest fighters, found themselves pretzeled by jujitsu masters, who pulled them to the ground and slowly choked or leg-locked them.

  • The story he tells is really about performing a kind of jujitsu with his own personality, channeling his dubious personal qualities--his bullying, his egomania, and his impatient ambition--toward the noble (and perhaps Nobel) end of peace in the Balkans.

  • The phrase was brilliant political jujitsu, turning the Republicans' favorite issue against them.

  • Creationists have learned to jujitsu the scornful tone and overreaching scope of these pronunciations.

  • Jujitsu's few-holds-barred grappling is far more effective when push comes to shove (and worse) than standing arts such as karate.


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