JOINT in a Sentence

Learn JOINT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
79 example sentences for JOINT, such as:
1. The report was a joint effort.
2. They finished in joint first place.
3. They act as joint trustees of the fund.
4. That is to say, our joint plans for him.
5. Cut the stem cleanly, just beneath a leaf joint.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of JOINT
joint
 n.  junction by which parts or objects are joined together
 v.  provide with a joint
Classic Sentence: (44 in 3 pages)
1  Shall I create another like yourself, whose joint wickedness might desolate the world.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
2  The young Greek, Michaelis, who ran the coffee joint beside the ashheaps was the principal witness at the inquest.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
3  It was a noble dish of fish that the housekeeper had put on table, and we had a joint of equally choice mutton afterwards, and then an equally choice bird.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXVI
4  That is to say, our joint plans for him.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 19. I LOOK ABOUT ME, AND MAKE A DISCOVERY
5  Altogether, I am well off, when I tell my income on the fingers of my left hand, I pass the third finger and take in the fourth to the middle joint.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 43. ANOTHER RETROSPECT
6  However, I now wrote a comforting letter to Mrs. Micawber, in our joint names, and we both signed it.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 49. I AM INVOLVED IN MYSTERY
7  Everything except the house she was living in was gone and Pitty did not stop to think that the house had never been hers but was the joint property of Melanie and Scarlett.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
8  This new honor came to her after an exciting joint meeting of those societies which threatened to end in violence and the severance of lifelong ties of friendship.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
9  The perpendicular parts of this side ladder, as is usually the case with swinging ones, were of cloth-covered rope, only the rounds were of wood, so that at every step there was a joint.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8. The Pulpit.
10  The light rendered every limb and joint discernible, and Duncan turned away in horror when he saw they were writhing in irrepressible agony.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 23
11  Farther up the line a man, standing behind a tree, had had his knee joint splintered by a ball.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
12  Trembling in every joint, from cold and exhaustion, he made an effort to stand upright; but, shuddering from head to foot, fell prostrate on the ground.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
13  The lady could not but yield to such joint entreaties, and promise to stay.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
14  This one covered, as a matter of fact, the T joint which gives off the pipe which supplies the kitchen underneath.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty
15  Every rib could be counted and every joint of the spine, though Mistress Mary did not count them as she bent over and examined them with a solemn savage little face.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
Example Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
1  They act as joint trustees of the fund.
2  I put my shoulder out of joint last weekend lifting heavy boxes.
3  A single pale blue flower grows up from each joint on a long stalk.
4  The programme is a joint enterprise with the National Business School.
5  The government has set up a joint commission to consider the problem.
6  Cut the stem cleanly, just beneath a leaf joint.
7  Many remedies effective in joint disease are primarily diuretic.
8  The report was a joint effort.
9  An essential element is good communication between the people involved, particularly in those stages where responsibility is joint.
10  They finished in joint first place.
11  It would have to grow by acquisitions or joint ventures to achieve global reach.
12  The joint venture ended in a legal wrangle between the two companies.
13  Management have called a joint meeting with staff and unions.
14  She tried to cure the pain in my knee by putting manual pressure on the joint.
15  For Joint Individual Investor Participant, all joint holders must sign.