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Example sentences for "jest like"

  • There you see 'em out there, jest like I been seein' 'em fer forty years and more.

  • By jicks, I'd jest like to take some of you fellers back to New York and show you some of the real sights.

  • They'd shet up jest like snappin' turtles.

  • Miss Prime was my sweetheart, Freddie, thirty years ago, jest like 'Lizabeth is yor'n now.

  • Give me time to git my breath: it 'll be enough, when I do tell you, to take away yore breath, jest like it did mine.

  • It does me good to come to town and find one place lookin' jest like it did when me and Abram used to come on county-court days and circus days.

  • Jest like a flea," suggested Perk, "gone afore you c'n put a finger on him.

  • Jest like I was sayin' partner," replied Perk promptly.

  • I jest like to lamp that 'ere duel the wust kind, but I knows aheap better'n to set out an' spy on 'em.

  • I got to look fly--jest like I didn't know no better.

  • Jest like I was goin' to get pinched," said Overland, bowing.

  • But I can hang 'em on the bedpost in the mornin', careless like, jest like I was raised to it.

  • He's jest like a dog with a hurt paw--wants ter crawl inter his kennel and lick his wounds.

  • But here ye ac' jest like ye was nuthin' but babies!

  • No, Majer, ef my party goes tu pieces at all, it will brake up intu a thousand splinters, jest like a chesnut tree wen it is struck by lightnin.

  • I giv the tabel a rap with my hickory, and the Kernel stratened up jest like openin a jack nife, and ses he, "Was I asleep, Majer?

  • I'de jest like to swap places with sum hoss-jockey, an go into the hoss contract line.

  • First this way, then that, jest like goin up the Mississippi River, for all the world.

  • Why, it's jest like diggin' a well to get at it.

  • Bud was standin' jest like this--me here an' Rosalie a little off to one side.

  • If you corner them, they'll shoot, and it would be jest like you to follow them right into their lair.

  • Why," he said, "they're jest like widders.

  • That's jest like a woman--always fergittin' the most important things in the world.

  • As long as I live,' she says, 'jest like my own.

  • She hung me ter a gibbet, jest like ol' Flint.

  • DUKE: I 'd nudge him off the cliff--jest like he were a sneakin' snooper.

  • And I 'll not be jolly till a year is up--jest like a widder.

  • Jest like drops of blood, he said the rubies was, strung along on a gold chain.

  • Jest like my spells ketches me; on'y I have it powerful bad acrost my shoulders, too.

  • Then all at once I saw the moon looking down at me through the apple boughs, jest like an old friend.

  • I'd jest like a chance to show him how little I care for him.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jest like" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    anonymous letter; break every; could offer; flesh foods; great fleet; great start; having their; hold out; human activity; imperial power; jest about; jest like; jest then; jest what; know little; looking west; more thorough; much affected; outward circumstances; popular religion; reconcile them; shut the; small circle; somewhat resembling; strange tongue