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How to use jay in a sentence

27 example sentences · noun

Jay means any of the numerous species of birds belonging to several genera within the family Corvidae, including Garrulus, Cyanocitta, Aphelocoma, Perisoreus, Cyanocorax, Gymnorhinus, Cyanolyca, Ptilostomus, and Calocitta, allied to the crows, but smaller, more graceful in form, often handsomely coloured, usually having a crest, and often noisy. Example: “Although sympathetic, my main reaction was to think: “Some people can handle it, and some people can’t,” and then smugly light up a big fat jay.”

Examples of jay by meaning

nounA marijuana cigarette; a joint.

  • Although sympathetic, my main reaction was to think: “Some people can handle it, and some people can’t,” and then smugly light up a big fat jay.2009 March 23, Caitlin Moran, The Times

More sentences with jay

  • Jay Bloom described the experience of learning what happened to the Titan as “very surreal”.2023 June 24, Chris Lau and Sara Smart, “‘That could’ve been us,’ say father and son who pulled out of doomed Titan trip out of safety…. From the entry bloom
  • Jay had discovered the understeps before they had even gotten to middle school.2016, Amy Ignatow, The Mighty Odds, →ISBN. From the entry understep
  • I made you a pee bee and jay, are you gonna eat it?2010 March, Thomas Kaufman, chapter 17, in Drink the Tea: A Mystery, New York, N.Y.: Minotaur Books, St. Martin’s Publishing Group, →ISBN…. From the entry pee bee and jay
  • Jay Branegan says each side will be preaching to the choir.1999 August 6, Frank Pellegrini, “Now the Tax Cut Is in the Hands of the Voters”, in Time. From the entry preach to the choir
  • Some jays, chickadees, nuthatches, and titmice regularly feed at suet; others seem never to indulge.1998, Alan Pistorius, Everything You Need to Know About Birding and Backyard Bird Attraction. From the entry suet
  • Jay looked at a clock, then at a newscrawl on a building ticker.1997, Steve Perry, Ed Solomon, Men in Black, page 182. From the entry newscrawl
  • The jay fell all lopsidedly and threshing, as though it were having a fit.1967, J. A. Baker, The Peregrine, page 41. From the entry thresh
  • "I don't see a thing except a jay and some bushtits.1919, The Boy Scouts' Year Book. From the entry deerish
  • Jay Bhattacharya and HHS Secretary Robert F.2025 April 2, Jen Christensen, “Scholars, groups sue Trump administration over canceled NIH research funding”, in CNN. From the entry Bhattacharya
  • Jay watched her hair fly for a moment, then turned their attention back to what had happened to the dancefloor.2023 August 2, HarryBlank, “Act Your Age”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 27 Dec 2024. From the entry headbang
  • Blue jays are not just smart, they're also quirky.2011, Julie Feinstein, Field Guide to Urban Wildlife, Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, →ISBN, page 199. From the entry anting
  • Jay was trying to track down the flingees.2011, Sheila Simonson, Larkspur. From the entry flingee
  • Jay, his “body man,” sprang forward to remedy this.2009, David Baldacci, First Family: King and Maxwell. From the entry body man
  • Like what, like a pee bee and jay?2004 March, Nicole Stansbury, “The Husband’s Dilemma”, in The Husband’s Dilemma, New York, N.Y.: Carroll & Graf Publishers, →ISBN, page 86. From the entry pee bee and jay
  • Dad had placed a cob of corn on a stump for the jays, who bickered over it non-stop.1994, Douglas Coupland, Life After God, Washington Square Press,, →ISBN, page 80. From the entry cob
  • Gluttonous, hoarding jay; he should have hedge-hopped and lurched from tree to tree in his usual furtive manner.1967, J[ohn] A[lec] Baker, “[The Peregrine] The Hunting Life”, in John Fanshawe, editor, The Peregrine, The Hill of Summer & Diaries: The…. From the entry furtive
  • Jay: He's such a wind-up merchant.2010, "The Gig and the Girlfriend," episode 2 of series 3 of The Inbetweeners. From the entry wind-up merchant
  • Both of the two jays that had just moved flew out of the tree and alightened in the boughs of a nearby cedar.2002, Diana Hignutt, Moonsword, page 214. From the entry alighten
  • Jay was ganked (mugged) for $55 by some Noongar boys when Brad told them he had a lot of money on him.2001, Delphine Jamet, Street Kid in the City. From the entry gank
  • Jay Swayze, Plainview contractor and president of Underground World Home Corporation, is building another of his famed "Atomitats" at the World's Fair site.1963 October 8, “Archived copy”, in Plainview Herald, archived from the original on 04 Jul 2026. From the entry atomitat
  • The blue jay was having a fit, and the sapsucker perked his bright-eyed little head at him not more than a dozen feet away.1924, James Oliver Curwood, chapter 4, in A Gentleman of Courage, Toronto: Copp Clark. From the entry perk
  • Jay Spearing conceded possession in midfield and Ramires escaped Jose Enrique far too easily before scoring at the near post with a shot Reina should have saved.2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport. From the entry far
  • Apparently the jay was unaware that the hawk no longer had its hold because it became a buzzsaw of blue fury, slashing the hawk several more times.1973, Kansas Fish and Game - Volumes 30-33, page 2. From the entry buzzsaw
  • Going through the woods, he grabbled acorns from under the snow, thinking to fling them in the hogshead, and find out if the jays would really eat them.1902, Martha McCulloch-Williams, chapter 9, in Next to the Ground: Chronicles of a Countryside, New York: McClure, Philips, pages 203–204. From the entry grabble
  • Jay Rodriguez headed over and Dani Osvaldo might have done better with only David De Gea to beat and, as Southampton bordered on the profligate, United were far more ruthless.2013 October 19, Ben Smith, BBC Sport. From the entry profligate
  • The San's feeders were mobbed with sparrows and jays and the starlings that had just begun to colonize the area, but there was no sign of robin, bobolink or oriole.1993, TC Boyle, The Road to Wellville, Penguin, published 1994, page 297. From the entry bobolink

Meaning of jay

  1. noun Any of the numerous species of birds belonging to several genera within the family Corvidae, including Garrulus, Cyanocitta, Aphelocoma, Perisoreus, Cyanocorax, Gymnorhinus, Cyanolyca, Ptilostomus, and Calocitta, allied to the crows, but smaller, more graceful in form, often handsomely coloured, usually having a crest, and often noisy.
  2. noun Any of various other birds of similar appearance and behaviour.
  3. noun The Indian roller, Coracias benghalensis.

Full definition of jay

Questions about jay in a sentence

How do you use jay in a sentence?
Jay is used as a noun. For example: “Although sympathetic, my main reaction was to think: “Some people can handle it, and some people can’t,” and then smugly light up a big fat jay.”
What is a short sentence with jay?
“Jay: He's such a wind-up merchant.”
What does jay mean?
Jay means any of the numerous species of birds belonging to several genera within the family Corvidae, including Garrulus, Cyanocitta, Aphelocoma, Perisoreus, Cyanocorax, Gymnorhinus, Cyanolyca, Ptilostomus, and Calocitta, allied to the crows, but smaller, more graceful in form, often handsomely coloured, usually having a crest, and often noisy.

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