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How to use jean in a sentence

20 example sentences · noun

Jean means denim. Example: “She wore a tattered jean jacket.”

Examples of jean by meaning

nounDenim.

  • She wore a tattered jean jacket.

More sentences with jean

  • Jean made an eight-hour trip across the border into Quebec just to satisfy his craving for poutine.From the entry poutine
  • But seriously, like me wearing jean shorts all throughout high school, these changes aren't cool at all.2016 March 17, Jon Savitt, “A Letter From Your Local Trump Supporter”, in The Huffington Post, New York, N.Y.: Oath Inc., →OCLC, archived…. From the entry Obamerica
  • I tossed the sportsjacket back in the closet and put the jean jacket on over my sweater.2009 December 23, Bruce Pask, “Feeling For | Denim Jackets, Collars Up”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times…. From the entry sportsjacket
  • Jean Bean was responsible for the twenty comical characters protecting transplanted cabbages, cauliflowers and calabreses.2007, Gregory Holyoake, Scarecrows, page 171. From the entry calabrese
  • Jean Lallot (per litt.) obliges me to clarify my thoughts on this subject.2002, Anna Morpurgo Davies, “The Greek Notion of Dialect”, in Thomas Harrison, editor, Greeks and Barbarians, →ISBN, page 169, note 31. From the entry per litt.
  • Jean is of course not basing his poem on a refurbishment of twelfth-century goliardery.1992, Jelena O. Krstovic, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, volume 8, page 409. From the entry goliardery
  • Common varieties of the fancy fustians are corduroy, jean, pillow, thickset, velveret and velveteen.1986 fall (June), Richard Henning Field, “Lunenberg-German Household Textiles: The Evidence from Lunenburg County Estate Inventories…. From the entry fustian
  • Jean Parker, usually associated with film productions, is the headline as far as “name” billing goes.1943 November 12, “New Stage Show at the Capitol”, in The Evening Star, 91st year, number 36,353, Washington, D.C., →ISSN, →OCLC, pages…. From the entry headliny
  • She added: “I did a jean ad.2025 December 6, Tom Murray, quoting Sydney Sweeney, “Sydney Sweeney admits her silence on divisive jeans advert made controversy worse”…. From the entry jeans
  • Jean has, as they say, become unboundaried.2017 July 18, Zoe Williams, “From Gypsy to The Sopranos, what do real psychotherapists think of TV shrinks?”, in The Guardian. From the entry unboundaried
  • Jean said disgustedly, “Tie a can to it, Webbard.2012, Jack Vance, Golden Girl and Other Stories. From the entry tie a can to it
  • Jean the philobat, on the pattern of acrobat, the type that prefers to cope alone with difficult, uncertain situations.2008, Isabel Fonseca, Attachment, London: Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, pages 182–183. From the entry philobat
  • Jean, 15, gets a minifacial before having a photo taken for the Heart Gallery, which seeks adoptive homes for older children.2007 August 22, Ellen Barry, “A Marketing Campaign From One Heart to Another”, in New York Times. From the entry minifacial
  • Jean had thought that the prowler might be some tramp who had wandered far off the beaten path of migratory humans.1915, B. M. Bower, chapter 10, in Jean of the Lazy A. From the entry off the beaten path
  • “Jean, it ain't right how you separated those two,” he said, and pianoed the little coffin with his fingers, tapping out his grievance.2017, Kim Michele Richardson, The Sisters of Glass Ferry. From the entry piano
  • The fabrics he bought–buffin, sackcloth, rash, jean fustian and milan fustian, durance–were modestly priced, affordable by the merchants and well-to-do yeomen of the town.2013 September 27, Drea Leed, “William Wray, Haberdasher”, in Lizapalooza: Historic Costume Research, Recreation, and Ruminations…. From the entry buffin
  • CDNOW's custom music selection and Levi Strauss & Co.'s custom-fit jean service are also good examples of giving customers more than just the product, but an experience as well.1999, Journal of Integrated Communications. From the entry experience
  • Jean falls in something like love with Alice in this moment, her heart stung by how game Alice is trying to be through her wet-eyed, skinny, lousy-haircutted misery.1997 spring, Carol Anshaw, “Elvis Has Left the Building”, in Story, volume 45, number 2, F&W Publications, Inc., page 53. From the entry haircutted
  • Jean seemed to be considering my proposition, almost as if I'd asked her up to my hotel room instead of over to a lousy cooktent for a cup of coffee.2017, Ed McBain, Don't Crowd Me. From the entry cooktent

Meaning of jean

  1. noun Denim.

Full definition of jean

Questions about jean in a sentence

How do you use jean in a sentence?
Jean is used as a noun. For example: “She wore a tattered jean jacket.”
What is a short sentence with jean?
“She wore a tattered jean jacket.”
What does jean mean?
Jean means denim.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jean (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes 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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