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How to use jo in a sentence

16 example sentences · noun

Jo means darling, sweetheart. Example: “José's got a car, hasn't he? Neither you nor I have.”

More sentences with jo

  • José's got a car, hasn't he? Neither you nor I have.From the entry have got
  • José, I don't think you've met my friend Maria.From the entry meet
  • Jo says men who lovebomb tend to have low emotional intelligence and lack empathy.2022 February 9, Verity Ellis, “There’s no bigger red flag than when a man lovebombs you: By VERITY ELLIS who was told after ten days ‘I…. From the entry lovebomb
  • Jo read the following words, inscribed in peacock blue ink, in a near cursive hand.1980 April 19, Andrea Loewenstein, “Random Lust”, in Gay Community News, page 10. From the entry peacock blue
  • José Flores, of the University of Illinois, and to the Srtas.1946, Raymond Leonard Grismer, Louis Clark Keating, Spanish Conversation for Beginners, page 6. From the entry Srta.
  • João and Montanha part of the Macau SAR, which would increase the territory’s area at least three times.2001, Gary M. C. Ngai [魏美昌], “Macau's Identity: The Need for its Preservation and Development into the Next Century”, in Arthur H. Chen…. From the entry Montanha
  • Jo grinned wide, immediately slipping into superflirt mode.1999, Elizabeth Cage, If Looks Could Kill. From the entry superflirt
  • Jo and her husband, Jeff, now have cabinets finished with a whitewashed oak and a center island topped with charcoal-and-rust-colored granite.1998 March, “Managing Money:Home”, in Kiplinger's Personal Finance, volume 52, number 3, page 64. From the entry whoop-de-do
  • Jo rose indignified, Vanessa following in her volcanic wake.1980 August 2, Andrea F. Loewenstein, “Random Lust”, in Gay Community News, page 15. From the entry volcanic
  • Jo jumped off the boat and looked behind him at the beautiful Chesapeake Bay, at the large, imposing ships that lined the Fellʼs Point shipyards.2016, Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing, Penguin Books (2017), page 111. From the entry Chesapeake Bay
  • Nation Beat, from exotic Brooklyn, uses the maracatu beat and rabeca fiddle of northeastern Brazil, and it has a Brazilian singer, Liliana Araújo.2008 January 15, Jon Pareles, “To See (and Hear) the World in Five Hours: Unique Sounds Ripe for Import”, in New York Times. From the entry maracatu
  • Jo left the school in the wake of a bunch of first years who made for the gate as if the building was on fire.1993, Linda Mather, chapter 23, in Blood of an Aries, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, published 1994, →ISBN, page 193. From the entry first year
  • Ernesto Araújo, Brazil’s foreign minister, last week raised eyebrows when he told an audience in Washington DC that the objective of “climatism” was to end “normal, democratic debate.”2019 September 22, Bryan Harris, Andres Schipani, David Keohane, “Brazil tries to refresh its image after Amazon fires”, in Financial Times. From the entry climatism
  • Contrary to conventional magical girl anime, in which protagonists happily accept their superpower, shōjo heroines are reluctant to become Magical Girls in Puella Magi Madoka Magica.2014, Lien Fan Shen, “The Dark, Twisted Magical Girls: Shōjo Heroines in Puella Magi Madoka Magica”, in Norma Jones, Maja Bajac-Carter…. From the entry magical girl
  • The magical girl genre was originally aimed at girls: series like Sailor Moon were first serialized in shōjo manga (girls' comics) magazines and contained many traits common to that genre.2015, Deborah Shamoon, “The Superflat Space of Japanese Anime”, in Lilian Chee, Edna Lim, editors, Asian Cinema and the Use of Space…. From the entry magical girl
  • Perhaps more than other manga artists, the first female shōjo creators embraced the idea of manga as escape as they spun tales of a fairy-tale European past vivid with details.2007, Robin E. Brenner, “Western Influence”, in Understanding Manga and Anime, Westport, Conn.: Libraries Unlimited, →ISBN, chapter 1…. From the entry shōjo

Meaning of jo

  1. noun Darling, sweetheart.
  2. noun The staff used in the Japanese martial art of jodo or jojutsu.

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Questions about jo in a sentence

How do you use jo in a sentence?
Jo is used as a noun. For example: “José's got a car, hasn't he? Neither you nor I have.”
What is a short sentence with jo?
“Jo grinned wide, immediately slipping into superflirt mode.”
What does jo mean?
Jo means darling, sweetheart.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jo (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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