JOT in a Sentence

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21 example sentences for JOT, such as:
1. It makes not one jot of difference.
2. There's not a jot of truth in his story.
3. I will jot things down as I remember them.
4. I even took a pencil and jotted them down.
5. Keep a pad handy to jot down queries as they occur.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of JOT
jot
 n.  a slight but appreciable amount
 v.  write briefly or hurriedly; write a short note of
Classic Sentence:
1  And now to my boon," said the King, "which I ask not with one jot the less confidence, that thou hast refused to acknowledge my lawful sovereignty.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
2  I don't do any high and pure mental work, nothing but jot down a few ideas.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
3  I will jot things down as I remember them.
Notes from the Underground By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: XI
4  On returning home in the evening he would jot down in his notebook four or five necessary calls or appointments for certain hours.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VI
5  But, as in his narrow-flowing monomania, not one jot of Ahab's broad madness had been left behind; so in that broad madness, not one jot of his great natural intellect had perished.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 41. Moby Dick.
6  When Eliza referred again to her project of teaching phonetics, Higgins abated not a jot of his violent opposition to it.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
7  For he who would be greatly loved, if he swerve ever so little from the right road, becomes contemptible; while he who would be greatly feared, if he go a jot too far, incurs hatred.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXI.
8  I even took a pencil and jotted them down.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
9  I have jotted down the form here, if you would not mind signing it.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VII. The Adventure of The Reigate Squires
10  He now drew out his notebook and jotted down one or two memoranda.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
11  Nevertheless the gentleman perused the notice with careful attention, and even jotted down the prices to be asked for seats for the performance.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER I
12  Not only were there set forth in it the trade, the age, and the pedigree of every serf, but on the margin of the sheet were jotted remarks concerning each serf's conduct and sobriety.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V
13  This note jotted down on the margin of Angles' report, we will return to our four couples.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—AT BOMBARDA'S
14  He has evidently some deep problem in his mind, for he keeps a little note-book in which he is always jotting down something.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
15  Here are some jottings for you to read when I am gone.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXVIII
Example Sentence:
1  It makes not one jot of difference.
2  Listen carefully to the instructions and jot them down.
3  At the end of every day, jot down a brief note on how peppy or tired you felt.
4  Keep a pad handy to jot down queries as they occur.
5  There's not a jot of truth in his story.
6  I'll just jot down their phone number before I forget it.