Example sentences for: jump

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

  • This is not `to give shoe slaps'; it is a `jump for joy accompanied by a slap on (the upper part of) the shoe.

  • If you are a fan of old-fashioned jazz—what is now known as “traditional” or “trad” jazz—you are familiar with one of the standard “jump tunes” of the genre—a tune most commonly called Muskrat Ramble . Even if you are not a fan, you must have heard it as least a dozen times.

  • For many years quantum leap (or jump ) belonged exclusively to the physicists, but during the past quarter-century or so it has come to be used metaphorically by speakers and writers who like to flaunt that sort of thing.

  • Ukulele , from Hawaiian, is a metaphor from `uku `flea' plus lele `to jump.

  • AAL report, "Flight Attendant Jump Seat Locations During Takeoff And Flight Attendant Typical Cabin Positions During Start of Cabin Service," undated; AAL email, Young to Clark,"Flight Crews," Sept. 12, 2001; AAL record, Dispatch Environmental Control/Weekly Flight Summary for Flight 11, Sept. 11, 2001.


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