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How to use jeep in a sentence

15 example sentences · adjective, noun, verb

Jeep means pertaining to utility or general purpose. Example: “Because the medic had been supplied with a jeep, he and his aide were classed as a motorized detachment.”

Examples of jeep by meaning

verbTo travel by jeep.

  • From there we jeeped over extraordinarily difficult roads to Marwari City, the site of Southern Philippine University, where I had been invited to address a convocation on the subject of "College Life in the United States."1997, John H. Esterline, Mae H. Esterline, Innocents Abroad: How We Won the Cold War, page 272

More sentences with jeep

  • Because the medic had been supplied with a jeep, he and his aide were classed as a motorized detachment.From the entry motorized
  • Billy Toad has shown extreme indecision in all aspects when it comes to his jeep. Whether it's how to modify it, or if he will sell it.From the entry indecision
  • If the jeep sank into mire, how could we pull it out?1989, Che Muqi (车慕奇), 丝绸之路今昔 [The Silk Road, Past and Present], Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 122. From the entry Barkol
  • Scalp, bones and brain gobbeted the jeep as the dead boy screwed and fell sideways.1972, Hugh Atkinson, The Most Savage Animal, page 242. From the entry gobbet
  • A Be on the Lookout has been broadcasted for his wife and her vehicle, a white colored jeep.2012, T. J. Gonzales, No Pattern. From the entry be on the lookout
  • The Trans-Siberian Railroad had no seats left, so going by jeep was the less glamorous but equally exciting alternative.2010 February 21 [2009 August 28], Peipei Zhou, “WHY WE TRAVEL READER PHOTO”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the…. From the entry Zamyn-Üüd
  • The two-player option is brilliant (one takes control of the jeep and the other the helicopter) and increases the addictivity.1989, "Silkworm" (video game review) in Crash (issue 66, pages 24-25). From the entry addictivity
  • A spruce young lieutenant came over, saluted and clambered into the back of our jeep, and we were off.1952, Norman Lewis, Golden Earth. From the entry spruce
  • Its cobblestone pavements prove “jigglesome” for jeeps, but the streets are broad and could be made into magnificent thoroughfares with a concrete covering.1948, Archibald Memory McMillan, “Beginning and Beckoning—Sowing the Seed in West China”, in For Christ in China, Nashville, Tennessee…. From the entry jigglesome
  • Rock, and set at a Potteresque school, where instructors with names like Professor Rumbledoore teach army officers about the proper maintenance of magical equipment, including a flying jeep.2011, Richard Lukas Graham, Government Issue: Comics for the People, 1940s–2000s, New York, N.Y.: Abrams ComicArts, →ISBN, pages 90–91. From the entry Potteresque
  • Although a train spur line is being built to Yining and Khorgas, the current method of travel for this excursion is by bus or private jeep.2010, Bijan Omrani, Asia Overland: Tales of Travel on the Trans-Siberian & Silk Road, Odyssey Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 497. From the entry Khorgas
  • Young men washed in the ecstasy of macho male companionship rode a jeep through barren country and embraced at a bar piled up with beer cans.1979, Kate Braverman, chapter 3, in Lithium for Medea: A Novel, published 2011, →ISBN. From the entry you only go around once
  • About a half hour down the main highway by jeep we come to Toufen where the multi-million dollar China Artificial Fibre Corporation has a large plant.1958, “The Faith and Formosa”, in Scarboro Missions, volume 39, number 11, page 22. From the entry Miaoli
  • Colonel Allen sat transfixed in his jeep, reminiscing as Charlie Company's Jody cadence gradually receded; echoing and re-echoing through honeysuckled foothills he had once traversed as a young officer candidate.2003, William Howard Graley, Of Silent Parades, page 209. From the entry jody cadence

Meaning of jeep

  1. adjective Pertaining to utility or general purpose.
  2. noun A small, blocky, military-style vehicle with four-wheel drive, suited to rough terrain.
  3. noun A light utility truck from WWII used by the U.S. Army, and subsequently turned into the trademark Jeep when civilianized by originating manufacturer Willys-Overland.

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Questions about jeep in a sentence

How do you use jeep in a sentence?
Jeep is used as an adjective, noun and verb. For example: “Because the medic had been supplied with a jeep, he and his aide were classed as a motorized detachment.”
What is a short sentence with jeep?
“If the jeep sank into mire, how could we pull it out?”
What does jeep mean?
Jeep means pertaining to utility or general purpose.

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