JAUNT in a Sentence

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Example sentences for JAUNT, such as:

1. He took a quick jaunt to Atlantic City.
2. Carol was exultant over this irregular jaunting.
3. The girl took a boy in the taxi to give him a jaunt.

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 Meanings and Examples of JAUNT
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jaunt
 n.  short trip or excursion, usually for pleasure; short journey
Classic Sentence:
1  The girl took a boy in the taxi to give him a jaunt.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT II
2  Carol was exultant over this irregular jaunting.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
3  The lads spend every penny on themselves, clothes, smoking, drinking in the Miners' Welfare, jaunting off to Sheffield two or three times a week.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
4  He is an honorable idler who lounges, who practises country jaunts, who cultivates the grisette, who pays court to the fair sex, who is at this very moment, perhaps, with my mistress.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—BLONDEAU'S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET
Example Sentence:
1  He took a quick jaunt to Atlantic City.
2  Tyros get kick-started by taking shoeless jaunts around their house, back yard and neighborhood before hitting the trail.