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. I want to enter my name down for the high jump.
2. Cats can clear two metres with a standing jump.
3. I didn't expect them to jump for joy at the news.
4. The irate animal made for us, coming at a full jump.
5. Dick Fosbury had a new technique for doing the high jump.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of JUMP
jump
 v.  jump down from an elevated point
 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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
11  I will jump out and run away, somewhere, back home to Tara.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIX
Example Sentence: (62 in 5 pages)
1  Spring walked along with the shatter, in the summer threw over a body's green leaf to jump in the warm braw is walking.
2  The irate animal made for us, coming at a full jump.
3  The audience was tense as they waited for the acrobat to jump.
4  The gentle touch of his hand on her shoulder made her jump.
5  Ashia Hansen rediscovered her best form with a morale-boosting win in the triple jump.
6  Cats can clear two metres with a standing jump.
7  I want to enter my name down for the high jump.
8  I didn't expect them to jump for joy at the news.
9  Dick Fosbury had a new technique for doing the high jump.
10  While all our plans were still in the blueprint stage, our competitors had the jump on us by announcing their new model.
11  He tensed himself for the jump and landed expertly on the other side.
12  I threw pebbles at the hens, and that made them jump and squawk.
13  He loosed the ropes that bound the prisoner, thus allowing him to jump up and escape.
14  For herself, she did nothing but caper about in the front chambers, jump on and off the bedsteads, and lie on the mattresses and piled-up bolsters and pillows before the enormous fires roaring in the chimneys.
15  For herself, she did nothing but caper about in the front chambers, jump on and off the bedsteads, and lie on the mattresses and piled-up bolsters and pillow before the enormous fires roaring in the chimneys.