Example sentences for: jumped

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

  • Johnny Apple jumped in at this point to complain that shoe leather was what he was eating for lunch.

  • It will take harder work and more ingenuity before we know whether Niziol has jumped to the right or the wrong conclusion.

  • The bad news : 1) The richest families reaped most of the gains; 2) the poorest families' wealth shrunk; and 3) the average family's debt jumped nearly 50 percent.

  • Also, if you enter jump , you get the synonyms for that; but if you enter jumped , you get the (same) synonyms but inflected—including the variants leapt, leaped for leap . All in all, for a relatively primitive system, it is not too bad; but you would have to be in love with your computer to use it in preference to a far more complete books of synonyms available (especially The Synonym Finder , Rodale in the U.S. and Canada, Longman elsewhere, which offers more than 800,000 synonyms, more than three times the number listed in any other synonym book).

  • My friend who was arrested, for example, was not charged with the thing she was jumped for-drug dealing, which she was completely innocent of-but of resisting arrest.


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