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Example sentences for "jots"

Lexicographically close words:
jostled; jostles; jostling; jot; jota; jotted; jotting; jottings; jou; joue
  1. Every day he referred to "jots and tittles" of abatement and absent "scintillas of evidence.

  2. Who would remind us of those jots and tittles of abatement, of those absent scintillas of evidence?

  3. On a sheet of paper one man jots down the arguments that may be used and by a process of elimination, scratches off one after another until he has left only the ones most likely to reach his prospect.

  4. At the desk, close by, sits the observer, who jots down the successive indications.

  5. When the star has been thus watched over the seven cobweb lines (or wires), the observer jots down the hour and minute, in addition to the second, and the task is done.

  6. And so they magnified the jots and tittles, scrupulously tithing their mint and anise, while they overlooked completely the moralities of the heart, and reduced to a mere nothing those grander virtues of mercy and of justice.

  7. And where could the child find better instructors than in his own parents, whose quiet lives had been passed in an atmosphere of prayer, and to whom the very jots and tittles of the law were familiar and dear?


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