Example sentences for: jumbo

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

  • Indeed, the ad accuses Clinton, rather than his critics, of invoking "legal mumbo jumbo" to obscure the immorality of his misconduct.

  • Lucien Maître-Créche, a 48-year-old copywriter specializing in fast-food accounts, was found guilty by a jury of eight men and four women of deliberately using the imperfect subjunctive tense of the franglaism jumbo frankfurter in a series of ads posted in the Paris Metro system.

  • Chapter 1: We watch as terrorists, sitting on their trawler off the coast of New York, sight in on a jumbo jet, ready, aim, and fire one of those Stingers, blowing the silver tube of humans out of the sky.

  • Jumbo Frankfurter is a French corruption of the American expression jumbo frankfurter , and is used in French as a verb meaning, literally, `to eat a large hot dog.

  • Aimer then serves, in the imperfect subjunctive, as the auxiliary verb and is followed by jumbo frankfurter , which is of course an infinitive.


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