How to Use jockey for position in a Sentence

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• In the dogfights the planes jockey for position like matchbox cars and flip and bank and invert in ways that take your breath away.
  — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 27 May 2022
• Forty fans clamor at the door outside; the girls jockey for position around the table.
  — Dean Kuipers, SPIN, 8 Jan. 2023
• There is plenty of star power on both sides as the Thorns and Wave jockey for position atop the league standings.
  — oregonlive, 27 Aug. 2022
• Contestants use their knowledge of trivia to jockey for position in this new game show.
  — cleveland, 29 Jan. 2023
• Cole is expected to start at point guard, and Gaffney and sophomore Andre Jackson will jockey for position at the shooting guard spot.
  — Shawn McFarland, courant.com, 19 July 2021
• Seavey, who with a victory would become the race’s greatest champion, was the first musher to leave Ophir as mushers continue to jockey for position in the early part of the race.
  — Mark Thiessen, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Mar. 2022
• To that end, Holmes said he was not caught off guard by last week’s maneuvering, two trades of high first-round picks — rare for their timing in March — as teams jockey for position to land one of the draft’s handful of elite talents.
  — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 30 Mar. 2021
• Groups jockey for position all the time, as attention produces funding.
  — Micah L. Sifry, The New Republic, 5 Nov. 2020
• The industry has seen a flurry of deals as companies jockey for position amid rapidly changing rules.
  — Tiffany Kary, Bloomberg.com, 16 Dec. 2020
• The letter also comes as Republicans jockey for position ahead of the GOP primary early next year.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 20 Sep. 2021
• American and Chinese warships often jockey for position in the South China Sea.
  — Robert Burns, Star Tribune, 26 Aug. 2020
• Watching the young employees jockey for position and avoid being cut will remind you of the early antics at Seattle Grace Hospital.
  — Neal Justin, Star Tribune, 6 Nov. 2020
• While watching the men wheel up and down the court and jockey for position, Rynearson arrived at his most perceptive insight: that the wheelchair should be considered an extension of the athlete’s body.
  — David Davis, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Sep. 2020
• The researchers think the octopuses are likely beating up on these fish to jockey for position in the hunting party or compete for the tastiest morsels of food, reports Peter Dockrill for Science Alert.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Dec. 2020
• Even as the two countries jockey for position on issues ranging from Hong Kong to 5G, the development and manufacturing of batteries is likely to emerge as a modern-day arms race.
  — Nadia Schadlow, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2021
• While replacement candidates jockey for position, the main question remains whether there’s an appetite among voters to remove Newsom from office.
  — Michael Smolens Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 July 2021
• These plates continually jockey for position, shaping the array of features visible at the surface.
  — Science, 8 Dec. 2020
• Risk experts predict businesses could face another year of tumult as the U.S. and international powers jockey for position in a new era of geopolitical shifts.
  — Richard Vanderford, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2023
• Risk experts are forecasting that businesses could face another year of upheaval as the U.S. and international powers jockey for position in a new era of geopolitical shifts.
  — Dylan Tokar, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2023
• If the race between Biden and Trump is close and obviously undecided, the action in court between the two campaigns could be furious as both jockey for position in an attempt to influence the legal parameters under which the counting occurs.
  — David M. Drucker, Washington Examiner, 3 Nov. 2020
• This will drastically shake up the financial services industry as players jockey for position with beneficiaries.
  — Mike Sha, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Oct 2024