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Example sentences for "jumps"

Lexicographically close words:
jumped; jumper; jumpers; jumpin; jumping; jumpt; jumpy; juna; junan; junco
  1. We could see, however by the long jumps he was taking, that he was making excellent time.

  2. In a few jumps he brought me alongside the rear buffalo.

  3. Sister Lewis jumps to her feet but is pulled back into her seat.

  4. LIGE (jumps down and takes Daisy by the arm) Come on up here, Daisy and ease Dave's pain.

  5. Lindsay jumps to his feet as if to pursue her.

  6. Vanna jumps into the mob of soldiers, crying that she has lied, lied abominably.

  7. Near Devizes there is a deep impression in the earth about which a very different story is told: it is called the Devil's Jumps and is, I believe, supposed to be an entrance to his subterranean dwelling-place.

  8. At the Jumps a shower came on, and to escape a wetting I crept into a hole or hollow in the rude mass of black basaltic rock which stands like a fortress or ruined castle on the summit of the hill.

  9. He jumps down through that hole, the earth opens to receive him, and closes behind him.

  10. Leaving the village I went up the hill to the Devil's Jumps to see the sun set.

  11. There is something so horribly jarring in the semi-jocosity of the last phrase that Jim jumps up from his chair and walks towards the window, where Mr. Wilson is sitting in dismal idleness.

  12. He has his bath, dresses, breakfasts, and then jumps into a fiacre, and has himself driven to the Anglo-Americain.

  13. I believe that in point of fact he jumps his own height in the air.

  14. Everything, including my back, was one vast ache punctuated by those appalling nerve jumps that set every other one in my body tingling.

  15. It was the severed nerve, and I learnt to dread those involuntary jumps that came so suddenly from nowhere and seized one like a deadly cramp.

  16. In confinement it must be furnished with a long cage, the top made of linen, because it hops and jumps about a great deal, especially at first.

  17. It is true that he jumps hastily upon the insects which constitute his food; but he does not seize them so eagerly as other birds; on the contrary, he stops short, and seems to deliberate whether it is prudent to eat them or not.

  18. If hunger induces it to move, its step is awkward, and its jumps so clumsy as to be disagreeable to the eye.

  19. Then she jumps down from the step, runs to him, and flings her arms round him rapturously, crying) Oh, I love you for making me a Queen.

  20. Well, it was a history of some kind, that much I read and then suddenly he bangs the book face down on the table, jumps up as if something had bitten him and walks away aft.

  21. It makes no difference if one "jumps to a conclusion," if he jumps in the light of all his known facts and holds his conclusion tentatively.

  22. I pulls short up, jumps down, and opens the door; and there she was with her hair down, and all of a heap like at the bottom of the keb.

  23. I jumps down in a minute, and she gets in and tells me to drive to a street near Eaton Square.

  24. When a spark of static electricity jumps a long distance, we say that the charge has a high potential; that is, it has a high electrical pressure.

  25. The secondary coil ends in two rods, and the spark jumps from one to the other.

  26. The heart of youth jumps up and says boo to a trouble and frightens it away.

  27. By Monday night every girl on the switchboard had the nervous jumps when they plugged in at her signal.

  28. And that minute he took two jumps over to where I was standing, grabbed my hands and says, 'Rose!

  29. The bird jumps across, turns round on the other branch, so as to face back again, settles its head and neck, and then in a few moments jumps back again.

  30. Not the worst of the three but jumps twelve foot and a half by the squier.

  31. Back on Terra there had been those sudden and unaccountable jumps in technical knowledge on the part of the enemy, jumps which had set in action the whole Time Travel service of which he had become a part.

  32. And these jumps had not been the result of normal research; they had come from the looting of derelict spaceships wrecked on his world in the far past.

  33. Then if we can't pick up any hints, we'll take some jumps forward until we do connect.

  34. The little black dog, as light as a soap-bubble, jumps up on his hind legs to try to get into the swing.

  35. I will give my daughter to him who jumps highest," exclaimed the King; "for it is not so amusing where there is no prize to jump for.

  36. Not the worst of the three but jumps twelve foot and a half by the squier.

  37. Puppy has had enough of running over the ice, suffers from cold feet, jumps on the sledge as soon as it comes to a halt, but has a decided objection to riding.

  38. I did have fears if I did it in jumps, as I always do, the jumps might bother the feelings of Solomon Grundy.

  39. Whereupon she jumps into the boat, and, striking her poor wounded foot against a seat, utterly breaks down with the pain.

  40. Rohritz to turn and look, gives the reins to his old comrade, jumps down from the drag, and runs to the assistance of his family.

  41. Rohritz exclaims, as he jumps down to investigate the extent of the damage.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jumps" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    quiver; shake; shakes; shiver; sweat; tremble