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Example sentences for "jaunt"

Lexicographically close words:
jasmine; jasmines; jaspers; jaundice; jaundiced; jauntily; jauntiness; jaunting; jaunts; jaunty
  1. They made steady and rhythmic their jaunt through the thick underbrush, keeping their eyes open for anything and everything that could possibly be harmful to them.

  2. When the height of people leaving Besten was reached the two men left the city for their day's jaunt to the vault library in the Alugean Mountain.

  3. In vain do I defend myself; even the circumstance that my last jaunt to London did not cost me £20—as I got forty-two guineas in London—does not affect him.

  4. You are to see our country for a jaunt upon my recommendation.

  5. I passed as miserable a night as my worst enemy could have wished and was up at the dawning for a jaunt in the open.

  6. Nancy, Sandy, and I had planned a jaunt to Ireland.

  7. Matters at end, the home-uneasiness Cousins were feeling at this jaunt prolonged Was ended also by the entry of-- Not simply him whose exit had been made By mild command of doctor "Out with you!

  8. Did you walk hither, jog it by the plain, Or jaunt it by the highway, braving bruise From springless and uncushioned vehicle?

  9. The monotonous years slipped by one after another, enlivened only by a death or a birth or a fight, or a very occasional jaunt to the town in one of the farm wagons, perched up on a load of hay or wedged in between sacks of potatoes.

  10. I've fixed up another jaunt on Sunday--with you and Molly.

  11. I prefer you to frame some pretty imaginings to bore you on our pleasure jaunt with my own; and here we are at our English Frascati, Richmond the enchanting.

  12. BEGIN A LONG JAUNT WEST The following three or four months (Sept.

  13. I mention'd the matter to Matthew and to my fellow-students, and we agreed to fill up our holiday by a jaunt to the ale-house.

  14. So that--remembering the Pot from the crystal furnace--my jaunt seem'd to give me new revelations in the color line.

  15. I wonder does any other nation but ours afford opportunity for such a jaunt as this?

  16. He went a jaunt into England with Dundas, Cockburn and Sinclair; who, seeing a gallows on a neighbouring hillock, rode round to have a nearer view of the felon on the gallows.

  17. Sir, you will get more by the book than the jaunt will cost you; so you will have your diversion for nothing, and add to your reputation.

  18. But no little jaunt in that flivver for me.

  19. A jaunt of a score of miles from Stratford brings us to the scenes amid which she was born and grew to physical and mental maturity.

  20. The public-house was so very clean and good a one, that the managers of the jaunt resolved to return to it and put up there for the night, if possible.

  21. Deeming it possible that my readers may not object to know what kind of thing such a gipsy party may be at that distance from home, and among what sort of objects it moves, I will describe the jaunt in another chapter.

  22. Getting into the boat seemed to bring to mind the shipping outside, and I incidentally asked if any of their boats might be going to Mobile soon, thinking that would save me the dangerous jaunt over the swamps.

  23. Though I had been on a terrible jaunt for twenty-four hours previously, I did not at that time feel tired, sleepy, or even hungry.

  24. Our journey, though attended with no little fatigue, was like a walk over the rosied path of pleasure, compared with a jaunt of which Bishop Kemper gave me an account.

  25. It is something of a jaunt to Richmond and they think I must show up there every two years anyhow.

  26. Jack has been telling me of that awful jaunt to Sakusa and how you were all used up afterward.

  27. Nixon had suggested making a hurried trip out and bringing in fresh supplies, but as the time set by Chester for his arrival for the Big Bend trip was already past, I did not feel warranted in prolonging the present jaunt any further.

  28. And will yuh take a jaunt over Eagle Butte way with me next Sunday--if I can get off?

  29. No, I will not go for a jaunt over Eagle Butte way next Sunday.

  30. Well, when I was about thirty-five, I was invited to join a party of friends on a trip to Canada, that being the favorite jaunt in my young days.

  31. Next time we three go on a little jaunt anywhere," said Psmith resignedly, "it would be as well to take a map and a corps of guides with us.

  32. And if two dollars would in any way add to the gaiety of the jaunt .

  33. In case Wade got back to Toronto before his new secretary's return from this jaunt Kendrick had enclosed a note with the letter from Nat Lawson, telling the railroad president where he had gone and why.

  34. No trip to the west coast would be complete without a jaunt to the latter amusement park and we made ours an all-day affair.

  35. Situations like these were a jaunt from the ordinary, and indulging in a bit of personal fantasy seemed a natural benefit.

  36. If you want, we'll take a jaunt along our original course.

  37. Nor could I get in touch with him because he had a six-week interim vacation and planned a long, slow jaunt through Yellowstone, with neither schedule nor forwarding addresses.

  38. Instead, I closed my apartment and told everyone that I was going to take a long, rambling tourist jaunt to settle my nerves; that I thought getting away from the scene might finish the job that time and rest had started.

  39. This is my first jaunt into this part of New England.

  40. The first fortnight of a proposed six weeks' jaunt through Upper New England terminated when he laid aside his heavy pack in the little bed-room at Hart's Tavern.

  41. She had known him only a few months when they went for this jaunt to Saint-Germain--a stolen adventure.

  42. I knew that was inevitable, so I made up my mind, all of a sudden, when I got wind of her intended jaunt to Saint-Germain, from the spy I had employed to watch her.


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