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How to use jot in a sentence

17 example sentences · noun, verb

Jot means the smallest letter or stroke of any writing; an iota. Example: “He didn’t care a jot for his work.”

Examples of jot by meaning

nounA small, or the smallest, amount of a thing; a bit, a whit.

  • He didn’t care a jot for his work.
  • Our minds are nothing but this knowledge of ourselves; and he who adds a jot to such knowledge creates new mind as surely as any woman creates new men.1901–1903, [George] Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman. […], Westminster [London]: Archibald Constable & Co., published 1903, →OCLC, Act I...
  • If I'm convinced he did it, it doesn't matter a jot to me how he did it.1920 October, Agatha Christie, “Fresh Suspicions”, in The Mysterious Affair at Styles […], New York, N.Y.; London: Grosset & Dunlap...

verbChiefly followed by down: to write (something) quickly; to make a brief note of (something).

  • Tell me your order so I can jot it down.

More sentences with jot

  • Tell me his number, and I'll jot it down on this scrap of paper.From the entry jot down
  • He did not get every jot and tittle, but the plan ultimately adopted was viable.From the entry jot and tittle
  • Caller: Sure sure, but maybe just jot this down.2022, G. M. Nair, The Mystery of the Murdered Guy, dS-dF, →ISBN, unnumbered page. From the entry sex number
  • She jotted a note on her clipboard.2015, Margaret Feinberg, Fight Back With Joy. From the entry uninform
  • The waitress jotted down two coffees and Nusshörnchen, although I wanted a slice of Linzertorte and peppermint tea.2011, Kris Heywood, chapter 47, in Maria: A Novel, Siskiyou Press, →ISBN, page 378. From the entry linzertorte
  • Maybe it's a jot and a tittle side by side.2008, Roy Blount, Alphabet juice: the energies, gists, and spirits of letters. From the entry umlaut
  • He was a laconic old soul who loved spacing only a jot better than he loved Martian alky.1949 February, Alfred Coppel, “Runaway”, in Planet Stories, volume 4, number 2 (Spring). From the entry spacing
  • Software makers pushed into the market with so-called customer-relationship management packages, enabling companies to track each jot and tittle of business they did with buyers.2010, Walter Kiechel [III], “Three Versions of Strategy as People”, in The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New…. From the entry jot and tittle
  • This painting was very small, not even a study but a pochade — no more than a first idea jotted down in paint.2008, Martin Gayford, The Yellow House, page 116. From the entry pochade
  • In his little red notebook the following random thoughts formed and were jotted down, like the slow interior overflow of a stanchless music.1974, Lawrence Durrell, “Sutcliffe, the Venetian Documents”, in Monsieur, New York: Viking, published 1975, page 209. From the entry stanchless
  • While my bunkmates jotted cheery letters to their families, I whimpered into my pillow, an incipient hodophobe racked by some impossible mix of homesickness and wanderlust.2016, Lauren Collins, When in French: Love in a Second Language, Ne York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 46. From the entry hodophobe
  • I do not yield a jot in my belief that such compilations are useful, I concede that there may be no need of reprinting mine at this moment.1934, Ezra Pound, “Date Line”, in Make It New, London: Faber & Faber, page 16. From the entry sottisier
  • “Our priority is to make relationships with people,” says Mariana Gomes, a bubbly social worker who methodically jots down whom she meets and what they need in a giant binder.2024 July 12, Dominique Soguel, “How Portugal became a world leader in fighting drug addiction”, in The Christian Science Monitor. From the entry bubbly

Meaning of jot

  1. noun The smallest letter or stroke of any writing; an iota.
  2. noun A small, or the smallest, amount of a thing; a bit, a whit.
  3. noun An instant, a moment.

Full definition of jot

Questions about jot in a sentence

How do you use jot in a sentence?
Jot is used as a noun and verb. For example: “He didn’t care a jot for his work.”
What is a short sentence with jot?
“She jotted a note on her clipboard.”
What does jot mean?
Jot means the smallest letter or stroke of any writing; an iota.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jot (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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