JUMP in a Sentence

Learn JUMP from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

272 example sentences for JUMP, such as:

1. This will be her third try at jumping the bar.
2. The bus was already moving when I jumped onto it.
3. He jumped off the bus and made a dash for the nearest bar.
4. I will jump out and run away, somewhere, back home to Tara.
5. And let me out of this carriage before I jump over the wheels.

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 Meanings and Examples of JUMP
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
jump
 v.  move suddenly or involuntarily
 v.  spring into the air
 v.  be highly noticeable
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  He saw Eady, after a moment, jump from the cutter and go toward the girl with the reins over one arm.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
2  Jeems did not like to jump fences, but he had jumped higher ones than this in order to keep up with his masters.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
3  "I wonder why he always wants to jump fences when he's had a few drinks," she thought.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
4  "Well, may I be damned if I'll have me own daughter telling me what I shall jump and not jump," he shouted, giving her cheek another pinch.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
5  And let me out of this carriage before I jump over the wheels.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
6  Your mother agreed, providing he was able to jump the pasture fence, for, she said, there would be a lot of rough riding to be done in the army.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
7  Plague take him, she thought, he's always one jump ahead of me.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
8  It went off at a jump and she felt the wheels pass over something soft, something resistant.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
9  Handling her needle awkwardly, she jabbed it into her thumb and with a little scream of pain and annoyance that made them all jump, she squeezed it until a bright red drop appeared.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
10  All the soothing and bright lights brought by Scarlett and the servants could not quiet her and Rhett, coming up the stairs three at a jump, looked like a man who has seen Death.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
11  I will jump out and run away, somewhere, back home to Tara.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
12  She had smarted under his jeers for a long time, but now she had him where she could make him jump through any hoops she cared to hold.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIV
13  To this end, he built a hurdle in the back yard and paid Wash, one of Uncle Peter's small nephews, twenty-five cents a day to teach Mr. Butler to jump.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIX
14  She made her first jump with flying colors and, thereafter, riding abroad with her father held no charms for her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIX
15  Then you'll be big enough for a higher jump and I'll buy you a bigger horse.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIX
Example Sentence: (62 in 5 pages)
16  For herself, she did nothing but caper about in the front chambers, jump on and off the bedsteads.
17  "Fairfax will smile you a calm welcome, to be sure," said I; "and little Adele will clap her hands and jump to see you: but you know very well you are thinking of another than they, and that he is not thinking of you."
18  I also got jewelry-making tools, such as pliers for jump rings, and a jump ring maker.
19  "We equate this leap in engine technology as equivalent to the post-World War II jump from propeller driven aircraft to jet engines," Brink said.
20  He said they was crawling up his legs; and then he would give a jump and scream, and say one had bit him on the cheek -- but I couldn't see no snakes.
21  "Oh, PLEASE mind what you're doing!" cried Alice, jumping up and down in an agony of terror.
22  The deer has been jumping the fence to go to the timber from the corn field.
23  Alfred became so vehement in describing what was wrong with the Internal Revenue Service that he began jumping up and down and frothing at the mouth.
24  After these came the royal children; there were ten of them, and the little dears came jumping merrily along hand in hand, in couples.
25  She was absolutely terrified at the thought of jumping off the bridge.
26  The film is about his adult life, but it keeps jumping to when he was a child.
27  This will be her third try at jumping the bar.
28  I've been jumping about the file instead of working straight through it.
29  The bus was already moving when I jumped onto it.
30  He jumped off the bus and made a dash for the nearest bar.