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Example sentences for "jackasses"

Lexicographically close words:
jackall; jackals; jackanapes; jackaroo; jackass; jackdaw; jackdaws; jacked; jackeroo; jacket
  1. Some would lucklessly follow jackasses all their lives, to find no gold but perhaps a finer treasure--a rainbow in the sky that would never fade.

  2. They too followed jackasses into hidden hills; made trails that led others to fortunes which built cities, industries, railroad; endowed colleges and made science function for a better world.

  3. If then in old Europe, we had a bird in hand, what silly fools we were to venture across two oceans, and try to catch two jackasses in the bush of Australia!

  4. Spare not, young chip, or else, the jackasses in the Australian bush will breed as numerous as the locusts in the African desert.

  5. The last hoot hoot of the jackasses in the misty depths of the hills drifted across the quiet evening air.

  6. The sun sank behind the distant line of hills, and the Jackasses on the high branches of a tree by the road laughed their good-night to the sun.

  7. She never mistook jackasses for lions, and her only title to commendation in her own eyes was that she, at all events, did not bray.

  8. She stood ready, waiting for lions; and only jackasses strayed by.

  9. The nearest that the majority of jackasses come to being votaries of music is when their skins are used for covering cases for musical instruments.

  10. And the jackasses got upon their feet with a sound as though the packed house were tumbling to pieces, and the Orchestra changed on the final bar of "Rule Britannia!

  11. The jackasses were lustily cheering the portrait of Admiral Sir John Rushworth Jellicoe, Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Fleet--now flung upon the screen.

  12. He inquired as they left the bar and moved to where Lil, steeped in the Pictures, was standing at the front of the Promenade: "What are these Gottverflucht jackasses braying about?

  13. But it ought to be as plain to th' mule that hears it as it is to th' jackasses that gets it up.

  14. Hannibal was not so fortunate as to have five gullible jackasses to help him.

  15. I stopped at a farm house and inquired: "Have you seen two jackasses strolling this way?

  16. One facetious fellow asked if we jackasses were Baptists, and the Professor told him he didn't know what denomination we formerly adhered to, but he believed that we were skeptics now.

  17. I had to be untied, and again deposited in the wheelbarrow, and do you believe, those human jackasses didn't have sense enough to lay me on my other side.

  18. I onct heerd a naturalist cove as was getting birds on the Diamantina River say that he was dead certain there wasn't no laughin' jackasses in the Garden o' Eding, which was a smokin' great pity.

  19. A row of jackasses on a tree near by laughed merrily.

  20. I wonder if ever, and how soon, I shall get a just estimate of how many jackasses there are in this ridiculous world.

  21. My correspondent, by the way, estimates the number of these Pyncheon jackasses at about twenty; I am doubtless to by remonstrated with by each individual.

  22. May your shadow never be less, and may all your enemies, unbelieving dogs who resist the Prophet of Evolution, be defiled by the sitting of jackasses upon their grandmothers' graves!

  23. In harness and attached to the bodies of jackasses are the heads of Cochrane, Butler, Meagher, and Dickinson.

  24. The hearse is being driven by Secretary Stanton, who commenced, "My jackasses had a load, but they pulled it through bravely.

  25. Here is the sun getting low, and the magpies and jackasses beginning to tune up before roosting.

  26. Below us, in the valley, a mob of jackasses were shouting and laughing uproariously, and a magpie was chanting his noble vesper hymn from a lofty tree.

  27. And as these two jolly jackasses rode past at my right side I could see the thumb of long Boris curving towards the ribs of his companion, and the shoulders of both shaking as they chuckled.

  28. For had they been a thousand times jackasses and rotten pudding-heads (as they were), at least they knew the way and something of the unchristian people among whom we were going.


  29. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jackasses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.