The lobby was a mill of activity: the elevators and interbuilding jitneys terminated here; people moved briskly, carrying with them the familiar air of hurry and vast pressure that infected the whole world outside.
Then there was a rush of feet, shouted orders and calls up and down the hallway, and the squeak of three jitneys passing by in rapid succession.
When I said that I wanted to push on to Tshikapa at once, Moody said, "We will leave at five in the morning in one of the jitneys and be in Tshikapa tomorrow night.
Well,--while Dum was looking at the want column, I saw on the front page that the poor men who run jitneys were in a fair way to be crowded out of their business by all kinds of ordinances and things that were likely to be put on them.
She was real nice and jolly and took people on her lap and did the honors of the jitneys with as much graciousness as she used to entertain before they lost their money.
The day after Dee's success as a jitneur the paper came out with headlines that the jitneys were no longer within the law.
The Tuckers were strong upholders of the poor man's rights and patronized the jitneyswhenever their own Henry Ford was out of commission or in use by some other member of the family.
We waited in almost breathless silence for Dum's return, Dee experimenting with her hair for the morrow's fray and I gazing out of the window at the whirlingjitneys skidding around the corner, making hair-breadth escapes.
Jitneys had just reached Richmond that spring, and every man or boy out of work who could beg, borrow or steal an old tumbled-down car had gone into the business of running a jitney.
They would have lain there wounded for an hour, two hours, in the Alsace district for twelve hours longer, if his nimble jitneys had not chugged up to the boyau and dressing station.
For this job of the jitneys is more than carrying orders; it is bringing wounded men over impossible routes, where four wheels and a motor were never supposed to go.
The boys told me that one of our jitneys once pushed a huge camion down over a ravine, and went on innocent and unconcerned, and never discovered its work as a wrecker till next day.
Them's Silvertown cords, and they ain't equipping jitneys with cord tires--not yet.
I hear those jitneyscalling 'Ole Black Joe,'" sang the doctor, as a horn sounded from the foot of the slope.
Then another terrific blast sounded from the Big Bridge, and the girls saw three large jitneys turn in from the main road and pull up before Bill's cottage.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jitneys" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
