JET in a Sentence
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68 example sentences for JET, such as:
1. A jet planed in from the south.
2. Fedallah first descried this jet.
3. A jet plane sheared the blue sky.
4. The jet zoomed low over our heads.
5. The laser jet printer is out of order.
2. Fedallah first descried this jet.
3. A jet plane sheared the blue sky.
4. The jet zoomed low over our heads.
5. The laser jet printer is out of order.
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Meanings and Examples of JET
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jet
v. issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth
n. the occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid)
Classic Sentence: (43 in 3 pages)
1 His hair was jet black, and his black mustache was small and closely clipped, almost foreign looking compared with the dashing, swooping mustaches of the cavalrymen near by.
2 They were always black and tightly fitting, with an expensive glitter: she was the kind of woman who wore jet at breakfast.
3 She felt that the moment was tremendous, and remembered suddenly that Mrs. Peniston's black brocade, with the cut jet fringe, would have been hers at the end of the season.
4 But the frock had an original back, very low, with a central triangular section from the waist to a string of jet beads at the neck.
5 Fedallah first descried this jet.
6 But though the ship so swiftly sped, and though from every eye, like arrows, the eager glances shot, yet the silvery jet was no more seen that night.
7 But calm, snow-white, and unvarying; still directing its fountain of feathers to the sky; still beckoning us on from before, the solitary jet would at times be descried.
8 And still, at wide intervals in the silvery night, the lonely, alluring jet would be seen.
9 But lazily undulating in the trough of the sea, and ever and anon tranquilly spouting his vapoury jet, the whale looked like a portly burgher smoking his pipe of a warm afternoon.
10 The whale was now going head out, and sending his spout before him in a continual tormented jet; while his one poor fin beat his side in an agony of fright.
11 For even when coming into slight contact with the outer, vapoury shreds of the jet, which will often happen, your skin will feverishly smart, from the acridness of the thing so touching it.
12 Another thing; I have heard it said, and I do not much doubt it, that if the jet is fairly spouted into your eyes, it will blind you.
13 It is well known that the elephant will often draw up water or dust in his trunk, and then elevating it, jet it forth in a stream.
14 But though the green palmy cliffs of the land soon loomed on the starboard bow, and with delighted nostrils the fresh cinnamon was snuffed in the air, yet not a single jet was descried.
15 Nothing seemed before me but a jet gloom, now and then made ghastly by flashes of redness.
Example Sentence: (25 in 2 pages)
1 She turned on the hose and a jet of water sprayed across the garden.
2 Since the advent of jet aircraft, travel has been speeded up.
3 A jet plane sheared the blue sky.
4 The winter sports bring the jet set from England.
5 The jet entered Chinese airspace without permission.
6 He chartered a jet to fly her home from California to Switzerland.
7 Try to imagine a jet which is more than seventy meters long and more than five stories high at the tail.
8 The jet zoomed low over our heads.
9 The laser jet printer is out of order.
10 A jet planed in from the south.
11 It's a good idea to spend the first night of your holiday sleeping off the jet lag.
12 I'm sure you've experienced jet lag before.
13 The trouble with"buffer states" in an age of jet aircraft and atomic weapons is that they do not buff.
14 "We equate this leap in engine technology as equivalent to the post-World War II jump from propeller driven aircraft to jet engines," Brink said.
15 The jet plane has a greater propulsive power than the engine-driven plane.