Example Sentences: Words Starting with J
153 words starting with J, each with example sentences that show how it is used.
- jaJa, he had been fooled and it was not pleasant for a man to go home and tell his wife that he been verneuked.
- jabOur dog was exposed to rabies, so the whole family went to a clinic to get our jabs.
- jabberHe jabbered incessantly and annoyed everyone.
- jackShe used a jack to lift her car and changed the tire.
- jackalThe jackals began to gather around the carcass.
- jackedThis computer is so jacked, I'm surprised it can still turn on!
- jacketHe's hoping to earn his jacket this year.
- jackpotThe lottery jackpot is worth a staggering three hundred million dollars.
- jadeJade refused to go swimming with her brother until he helped her find her favorite swimsuit.
- jadedAt the time I was a wide-eyed freshman, but I was soon to grow jaded and cynical.
- jagEven if you hadn’t been drowned, you would have been smashed to pieces by the terrible weight of water...
- jaggedAs many as twenty, all of varying style, standing together like ranks of jagged teeth, and providing a...
- jailHe was sent to jail for theft.
- jakeJake was ordained a high priest when he was called to be a counselor in a bishopric.
- jamHe is allergic to jam.
- jammerThis Wi-Fi jammer costs a cup of coffee.
- jammyI got the jammy loaded in one hand.
- janeJane sleeps in the top bunk, and her little sister Lauren takes the bottom bunk.
- jangleThe sound from the next apartment jangled my nerves.
- janitorFolks in our neighborhood come from every walk of life, prince and pauper, investor and janitor.
- japanJapan exports electronic goods throughout the world.
- jarShe refilled the jar with peanuts today evening.
- jargonHe used technical jargon but I managed to catch the drift of his argument.
- jarringThe jarring of peaches took place at the end of the season.
- jasmineJasmine put lube on her bike chain in preparation for the big race.
- jaundicedOverhanging her precarious body was a jaundiced face whose skin resembled a sheet of parchment paper...
- jauntSome days later it happened that young Heriotside was stepping home over the Lang Muir about ten at night, it...
- jauntyHe wore a jaunty outfit that was all the rage.
- javaJava has no first-class functions, so function objects are usually expressed by an interface with a single...
- javelinI managed to medal in the javelin throw.
- jawHis jaw dropped in amazement.
- jawlineSandra swooned over Pierce's manly jawline.
- jayAlthough sympathetic, my main reaction was to think: “Some people can handle it, and some people can’t,” and...
- jazzWhat is all this jazz lying around?
- jealousShe gave him a jealous look.
- jealousyShe was mad with jealousy.
- jeanShe wore a tattered jean jacket.
- jeansTraditionally most jeans are dyed dark blue.
- jeepBecause the medic had been supplied with a jeep, he and his aide were classed as a motorized detachment.
- jeerThe plot of the film was so derisive that the audience began to jeer.
- jellyHis mother prepared jelly for him and his friends for dessert.
- jellyfishIt got trapped in the fishing net because it's a big stupid jellyfish!
- jennyJenny is a talented musician, playing the cello, saxophone, piano and guitar.
- jeopardizeAfter having an affair with a junior, her chances of promotion were seriously jeopardized.
- jeopardyThe poor condition of the vehicle put its occupants in constant jeopardy.
- jerkWhen I yell "OK," give the mooring line a good jerk!
- jerryJerry is a financial member of the club.
- jerseyA young boy was wearing a Manchester City Erling Haaland jersey.
- jessJess was a sixty-something, short, White, bald man who could easily be "clocked" as gay.
- jestI made that comment in jest; it wasn't serious.
- jetFarmers may either dip or jet sheep with chemicals.
- jettisonThe shoreline was littered with the floating jettison from the wrecked freighter.
- jettyYou should put a couple of springs onto the jetty to stop the boat moving so much.
- jewelGalveston was the jewel of Texas prior to the hurricane.
- jewelerA good jeweler should be able to tell a real stone from a phony one.
- jewelleryThe jewellery was very expensive in that shop.
- jibThey needa’ watch they jibs.
- jibeHe flung subtle jibes at her until she couldn’t bear to work with him any longer.
- jiffyI’ll be back in a jiffy.
- jigThey danced a jig.
- jiggleGive the key a jiggle and see if it opens.
- jigsawA few of the pieces of this jigsaw puzzle are lacking.
- jimmyFor quotations using this term, see Citations:Jimmy.
- jingleHe heard the jingle of her keys in the door and turned off the screen.
- jitterThat creepy movie gave me the jitters.
- jitteryJust as appealing was the manner in which Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Milner cut swathes down either flank...
- jiveDon’t try to jive me! I know where you were last night!
- joJosé's got a car, hasn't he? Neither you nor I have.
- jobI've got a job for you: could you wash the dishes?
- joblessThe government announced a new initiative to help the jobless.
- jockGeology is so mick - half the jocks are in it.
- jockeyThey were jockeying for position toward the end of the race.
- joeI'm just an ordinary joe.
- joeyAs soon as a joey is born, it crawls into its mother's pouch.
- jogI tried desperately to jog my memory.
- joggerWe will stagger the run so the faster runners can go first, then the joggers.
- johnJohn hardly felt the needle prick his arm when the adept nurse drew blood.
- johnnyJohnny lost a tooth, but kept it for the tooth fairy.
- johnsonJohnson had to be drafted in as the caretaker manager after Hewlett resigned without warning the day before...
- joinThe plumber joined the two ends of the broken pipe.
- joinerThe zero-width joiner (ZWJ) has a code point but no corresponding symbol.
- jointThe play was a joint production between the two companies.
- joistI’m trying to correct my sagging floor by sistering the joists.
- jokeIt was a joke!
- jokerSome joker keeps throwing eggs at my windows.
- jokinglyJimmy jokingly called Bob a doofus. Bob took the insult seriously.
- jollyIt’s jolly hot in here, isn’t it?
- joltThe bus jolted its passengers at every turn.
- jonathanJonathan Swift was an Augustan writer.
- jonesI’ve got a basketball jones!
- josephJoseph Stalin ruled the Soviet Union with an iron fist.
- joshJosh put down that he was a single male on the dating website.
- jostleAxia and Amory, acquaintances of an hour, jostled behind a waiter to a table at a point of vantage; there...
- jotHe didn’t care a jot for his work.
- journalThe university's biology department subscribes to half a dozen academic journals.
- journalismSome newspapers are afraid to do hard-hitting investigative journalism. But this newspaper doesn't run from a...
- journalistHe worked as a civilian journalist for ten years before being employed by the public broadcaster.
- journalisticThis gang-bang speaks more to journalistic groupthink than to any real moral or legal reasoning.
- journeyThe journey to London takes two hours by train.
- joustThe knights prepared to joust in the tournament.
- jovialA long, jovial, inane laugh broke the sudden silence which had fallen over everyone.
- jowlErnest Cramer, the mayoral contender, was a chunky man with a waxish grin and heavy jowls.
- joyIt is his joy to walk in the rain.
- joyfulThe children were joyful on the first day of summer break.
- joyousOur ears were assailed by her joyous efforts on her new saxophone.
- joyouslyUncle Henry was milking the cows in the barnyard, and Toto had jumped out of her arms and was running toward...
- joystickThe joystick had a suckered base to keep it on the table.
- jubilantIF VOLFER is happy, Transportation Minister Israel Katz seems almost jubilant.
- jubilationI knew it had been a victory when I heard the jubilations coming from that neighborhood.
- judderThe renovation effort came to a juddering stop due to a lack of funding.
- judgeAt a boxing match, the decision of the judges is final.
- judgmentHe needs some time in the field before his judgment can be trusted.
- judicialThat judicial method which serveth best for the invention of truth.
- judiciaryThe authoritarian regime oversaw the total emasculation of the country's judiciary.
- judiciousThe book might be improved by judicious emendations.
- jugI just jugged a band director; now I got a brand new saxophone.
- juggleShe can juggle flaming torches.
- jugglerThe juggler always seemed to have a heckler or two in the crowd on Saturdays.
- jugularIt was vicious; he went for the jugular.
- juiceSqueeze the orange and some juice will come out.
- juicyI do not keep up with all the latest juicy rumors.
- jukeSmith likes juking religion when talking with his family at dinner.
- jukeboxThe jukebox belted out tunes from the fifties, and waiters shouted food orders to the cooks behind the...
- jumbleI tried to study, but in my half-awake state, all of the concepts seemed to jumble together.
- jumboFor third and short, they're going to bring in their jumbo package.
- jumpThe boy jumped over a fence.
- jumperShe was the first female high jumper to clear two metres.
- jumpsuitWhat is a serve is the hazmat jumpsuit Marlo wears for the sprinter.
- jumpyStephens and I went after him, but it was jumpy work, for it would have been a bad job if he had seen us.
- junctionTheir collaboration formed a fruitful junction of ideas.
- junctureWe're at a crucial juncture in our relationship.
- juneJune, no shrinking violet she, crossed the room and introduced herself to the newcomers.
- jungleIt’s a jungle out there.
- juniorHe uses the leverage of seniority with the more junior employees.
- junkThis shed is full of junk – will you help me sort it out?
- junketThe tourist board organized fam junkets for travel agents.
- juridicalDuring juridical days law courts are in session.
- jurisdictionThe case falls outside the court’s jurisdiction.
- jurorAs a juror your opinion is of great significance for the outcome of the trial.
- juryWe’ll schedule closing arguments for Thursday, and the jury will have the case by that afternoon.
- jusEmbracing the ancient legal doctrine of jus gentium, Bates declared independence.
- justIt is a just assessment of the facts.
- justiceJustice was served.
- justifiableThis reasoning is far more justifiable than the last, but it is still incomplete.
- justifiablyAfter a week the search party was justifiably in low spirits.
- justificationThe growing use of social media to spread anger and dissent in the Arab world has been hailed by western...
- justifiedThe act was fully justified.
- justifyHow can you justify spending so much money on clothes?
- justlyBut the city on the River Clyde can justly claim to have turned the tide.
- jutFrank's aquiline nose jutted out from underneath his glasses.
- juvenileThe Associated Press will not identify the suspect of the crime because he is a juvenile.
- juxtaposedIn the study, they juxtaposed economic growth with social welfare indicators.
- juxtapositionThere was a poignant juxtaposition between the boys laughing in the street and the girl crying on the balcony...
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Example sentences adapted from Wiktionary, from the entry of each word and the entries the sentences come from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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