How to Use jalopy in a Sentence

jalopy

noun

• They were shocked when the jalopy sitting in the barn actually started.
• There ought to be graphics of a junkyard of jalopies: Look, there's the ghost of Virginia right there.
  — Chuck Culpepper, chicagotribune.com, 18 Mar. 2018
• Fans have dissected the teaser trailer where the core four are at the lake, riding in the jalopy, etc.
  — Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 10 Oct. 2018
• Plus, the running game is sputtering like an old jalopy.
  — Jay Paris, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2022
• So, what exactly is causing the moon to rust like an old jalopy sitting in a junkyard?
  — Jennifer Nalewicki, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Sep. 2020
• Picture Dmitriev going off on a dig in his threadbare jalopy (a Niva).
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 11 Oct. 2017
• That means it’s more than likely that those who are the least able to afford a new car or keep a car in good repair are likely driving a jalopy.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 11 Jan. 2023
• Although some residents have jalopies (and sometimes one will come with a rental house), the way to get around is on a bike, a golf cart or your own two feet.
  — Alison Humes, WSJ, 28 June 2018
• But the regime’s bigger problem is that investors who kick the tires on the Castro jalopy increasingly walk away.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 22 Apr. 2018
• Reviving cheery Archie and its cozy world of malt shoppes and jalopies as a tale of unsolved homicide sounds like remaking the day as night.
  — Willa Paskin, Slate Magazine, 26 Jan. 2017
• The rhythms have a spiky, loping quality, evoking a jalopy puttering up a hill then racing down the other side again and again.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 7 July 2017
• Dear Carolyn: My partner and his brother have decided to go in on a new car for their sister, who has been driving around in an unsafe jalopy for a while.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2020
• This is a busted jalopy that runs on yesteryear’s resentments.
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2022
• Although general manager Ryan Pace described it as a jalopy, the car looked more than serviceable in pictures published by the Bears.
  — Rich Campbell, chicagotribune.com, 12 May 2017
• In between, the two companions move through one cockamamie landscape after another, first by train, then by foot, then by water-borne jalopy.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2021
• But what happens when your crews are still first-rate but your spacecraft is a jalopy — like, say, the overgrown, broken-down Mir space station which, by the late 1990s, had long since passed its orbital expiration date?
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 7 Sep. 2017
• As his escort disappeared over the horizon, trailed by a line of German jalopies, gone, too, was the necessity of a special detail in the army post office to handle incoming mail for the rock ‘n roll idol.
  — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Mar. 2023
• Every Jaguar and jalopy in L.A. is left parked at its destination, usually taking up more public real estate than would 10 electric scooters in a row.
  — Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, 30 May 2018
• Instead, our personal garages are stuffed mostly with lawn-care equipment and assorted jalopies of lesser prestige.
  — Car and Driver, 26 Sep. 2018
• This is an organization that paints an old jalopy in opposing team’s colors, parks it in front of the arena, and then asks fans for a $5 charitable contribution to swing at it with a sledgehammer.
  — Kevin Allen, USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2018
• Creech, a huge cephalopod, subsists on oil, and takes up residence in Tripp’s decrepit jalopy, sometimes impertinently seizing control.
  — Andy Webster, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2017
• Hundreds of classic cars, hot rods, jalopies, motorcycles and some vehicles that defy description make a 140-mile drive from Seligman to Kingman and finally to Oatman and Topock.
  — Roger Naylor, azcentral, 27 Dec. 2019

Last Updated: 24 Aug 2024