Example sentences for: jump

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

  • Day Lewis, in “How Poetry Began” (1944), wrote “To find this out, we'll have to jump into a Time Machine, put its gear lever into reverse, and race backwards through many thousands of years into prehistoric time.”

  • Since 1991, there has been an annual lottery for "diversity" immigrants, designed to allow citizens of countries with low levels of emigration to the United States to jump the queue.

  • These results prompted some of the scientists in the field who had jumped on the resistin bandwagon after the initial results in rodents to jump off again.

  • Responding to the whistles and taunts of Old Man Moon, she attempts to re-enact the fairy tale and "jump over the moon."

  • Because several passengers on United 93 described three hijackers on the plane, not four, some have wondered whether one of the hijackers had been able to use the cockpit jump seat from the outset of the flight.


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