How to Use jaywalk in a Sentence

jaywalk

verb

• The police officer warned us not to jaywalk.
• Before the barrier was erected, the convenience store had put up signs in multiple languages warning tourists not to jaywalk.
  — Koh Ewe, TIME, 28 May 2024
• And a crosswalk for the people in the apartment who jaywalk.
  — Doug Smithsenior Writer, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2022
• Most members and employees opt to park on the side of the club instead of trying to jaywalk across the street.
  — Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2024
• The city of Daye, in China’s Hubei province, has long struggled to suppress the scourge of jaywalking.
  — David Scharfenberg, BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2018
• Banks wouldn’t lend, police used crimes such as jaywalking to arrest, schools failed to teach.
  — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
• The combination of these failures—and Herzberg's decision to jaywalk in the first place—led to her death.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 22 Mar. 2018
• More crosswalks were also added, according to the New York Times, to help thwart jaywalking.
  — Benjamin Preston, Car and Driver, 12 Dec. 2017
• Four signs in the median warned people not to jaywalk there, directing them to a crosswalk 380 feet away.
  — Lauren Smiley, Wired, 8 Mar. 2022
• He also was ordered not to block traffic, not jaywalk but use a crosswalk, and if driving, stick to lanes of traffic.
  — oregonlive, 23 Sep. 2021
• A young African-American man is stopped for jaywalking.
  — David J. Neal, miamiherald, 26 June 2017
• Rush was stopped on Aug. 25 on what officers said was a jaywalking offense.
  — Fox News, 2 Apr. 2018
• The data show that men are ticketed for jaywalking 2 ½ times more than women.
  — Gene Balk / Fyi Guy, The Seattle Times, 20 July 2017
• This is like jaywalking to get clarity on traffic laws.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 7 June 2023
• In the video, the victim, Elaine Herzberg, 49, appears to be illegally jaywalking from a median strip across two lanes of traffic on a dark road.
  — Russ Mitchell, latimes.com, 22 Mar. 2018
• Motorists share the road with bicyclists; bikers stop at red lights; and pedestrians don’t jaywalk.
  — John Gallagher, Detroit Free Press, 13 June 2019
• In October, 1991, he was stopped by the police for jaywalking in downtown Oakland.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
• The man was found not to have been involved in the assault on a female, but was cited for obstructing official business and jaywalking.
  — cleveland, 9 Feb. 2020
• Bartholomew added that August and September are popular months for seeing Sasquatch jaywalking across the street.
  — Fox News, 15 Aug. 2018
• If walkers sometimes jaywalk to reach their destination, that’s a design flaw rather than a human flaw.
  — Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2021
• Johnnie Rush was accused of nothing more than jaywalking.
  — German Lopez, Vox, 3 Apr. 2018
• If crosswalks only come every quarter or half-mile, Hamann said, many people will opt to jaywalk through multilane roads.
  — Maia Pandey, NBC News, 29 June 2023
• From this data, analyses can reveal where the public is most tempted to jaywalk or where human drivers tend to be least attentive to the rights of pedestrians.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2021
• Many who died were males, were jaywalking or had alcohol in their systems on multilane roads in urban areas at night.
  — Detroit Free Press, 28 June 2018
• Barney points out that Andy doesn’t wear a sidearm, that traffic and jaywalking are completely out of control, and that Mayberry doesn’t have tear gas or submachine guns.
  — Bulletin Board, Twin Cities, 19 Mar. 2017
• Pedestrians are caught jaywalking; bicyclists don’t stay in the bike lanes and motorists drive while distracted.
  — Erika I. Ritchie, Orange County Register, 1 May 2017
• China's version factors in everything from jaywalking, to smoking on trains, to buying too many video games.
  — Ben Tracy, CBS News, 24 Apr. 2018
• They are supposed to reduce jaywalking and increase safety.
  — Ben Brasch, ajc, 14 May 2018
• In another, a man alleged that an officer twice squeezed his genitals during a frisk last year that followed a street stop for jaywalking.
  — Al Baker and Benjamin Mueller, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2018
• The reasons to revoke jaywalking laws are similar, Volland said.
  — Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024