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How to use jerry in a sentence

25 example sentences · noun, verb, adjective

Jerry means a chamber pot. Example: “Jerry is a financial member of the club.”

Examples of jerry by meaning

nounA chamber pot.

  • We used chamber-pots a good deal – ‘jerries’ – cause of much hilarity doe to the hostilities.1976, Angela Carter, “The Mother Lode”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 3

More sentences with jerry

  • Jerry is a financial member of the club.From the entry financial
  • Jerry will hit up a round for us all.From the entry hit up
  • Jerry was slowing down, so I swapped in Tom.From the entry swap in
  • Jerry was slowing down, so I swapped Tom in.From the entry swap in
  • Jerry is twoing up with Harrison.From the entry two up
  • Jerry, age two, has been living in the same fosterhome for fourteen months.2012, Vera Fahlberg, A Child's Journey Through Placement, page 201. From the entry fosterhome
  • Jerry Jewell was on the scene with Sirius' two most awesome arcaders.2010, Steven Levy, Hackers, page 414. From the entry arcader
  • Jerry Falwell's right-wing fundamentalist publication "Moral Majority Inc." editorialized that AIDS was God's "deserved punishments" against homosexuals.2007 May 26, Leslie Feinberg, “Care & prevention, not repression”, in Workers World. From the entry editorialize
  • JERRY SEINFELD: And what's the deal with the razor blade slot in the bathroom?2005, Unattributed, Family guy : the official episode guide, seasons 1-3, page 205. From the entry razor blade slot
  • "Jerry Springer encourages people to show off their filthiest laundry, to misbehave.1998 June 8, Barbara Lippert, “Punchin' Judy”, in New York, New York, N.Y.: New York Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12…. From the entry bup-bup-bup
  • Jerry was aware, vaguely, that there was something surreptitious about it.1917 April, Jack London, chapter IV, in Jerry of the Islands, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, page 47. From the entry wrongness
  • Jerry figured the guards must have thought the POWs were near death given the volume of bodily noise coming from Alcatraz.2019 March 26, Alvin Townley, Captured: An American Prisoner of War in North Vietnam (Scholastic Focus), Scholastic Inc., →ISBN. From the entry hock
  • Jerry West would be tearing it up.2013, Bobby "Slick" Leonard, Lew Freedman, Boom, Baby!: My Basketball Life in Indiana, →ISBN, page 118. From the entry tear it up
  • Jerry Ervin (District 8) requested a specific list of where the BAC could expect requests for action from DPT.2004 July 21, San Francisco Bicycle Advisory Committee (BAC), “Regular Meeting Minutes”, in City and County of San Francisco, archived…. From the entry sharrow
  • Jerry Barnbaum Morrie Korcngold Gert Korengold Raymond B.1968, Martin Marcus, Yiddish for Yankees: Or, Funny, You Don't Look Gentile, page 9. From the entry chochem
  • I’m jerry.” And he laughed at her encrimsoned face.1915, George Bronson-Howard, God’s Man, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, page 132. From the entry gunna
  • Jerry was Morel’s bosom friend, and Mrs.1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC. From the entry bosom friend
  • One poster was of a beautiful black girl with wet jerry curls and pink glossy lips, parted a little to reveal a hint of teeth.2011, Marilyn Heward Mills, The Association Of Foreign Spouses, Hachette UK, →ISBN. From the entry jerry curl
  • Jerry Abiog, 37, worked for an Atlanta-based consulting firm until he was laid off in January -- only to get called back six weeks later.2009 August 19, Jessica Dickler, “You're fired! You're hired!”, in CNN Money, archived from the original on 23 Oct 2017. From the entry rehire
  • Jerry Ordway adds cantankerosity to the wizard making him a valuable piece of comedy relief, not that SHAZAM! is a heavy book.1995 July 24, rct...@vms.cis.pitt.edu, “Pick of the Brown Bag: July 20 (long, again)”, in rec.arts.comics.info (Usenet). From the entry cantankerosity
  • Jerry Brown ran a strong second.1992 March, “Clinton Top Votegetter At Democratic Caucucses”, in Casper Star-Tribune. From the entry caucuses
  • Jerry was well up for it throughout the planning process, though Poppy had warned that many ex-Love Islanders require psychological counselling after they exit the show.2019, Simone Goodman, Look at Me Now, London: Boldwood Books Ltd, →ISBN. From the entry Love Islander
  • Jerry went for a thing called "lemon plait." He watched the dwindling supply with anguish, not strong enough to reach the counter in the fetid excitement of hungry boys.1936, Francis Hackett, The Green Lion, page 241. From the entry lemon plait
  • Washed-up jerry cans and bits of lumber wriggled at the water's edge, amid the sewage and the sloggings of occasional fishermen and the spreading wake of a Vietnamese patrol boat.1983, National Lampoon, volume 2, numbers 54-65. From the entry slogging

Meaning of jerry

  1. noun A chamber pot.
  2. verb Synonym of jerrybuild.
  3. adjective Jerry-built.

Full definition of jerry

Questions about jerry in a sentence

How do you use jerry in a sentence?
Jerry is used as a noun, verb and adjective. For example: “Jerry is a financial member of the club.”
What is a short sentence with jerry?
“Jerry Brown ran a strong second.”
What does jerry mean?
Jerry means a chamber pot.

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