How to Use jump in a Sentence

jump

1 of 2 verb

• The car jumped the curb.
• The cat jumped down off the table.
• She jumped to an early lead in the race.
• The circus lion jumped through the hoop.
• The runner jumped a hurdle.
• She jumped when she heard a loud knock late at night.
• He jumped into his truck and drove away.
• The fans were jumping up and down with excitement.
• Everyone was jumping for joy when we found out that we had won an award.
• Everyone jumped into the pool.
• And, and nobody will hold hands and jump off the cliff.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 14 May 2023
• To her shock, Aries got spooked and jumped out of the open rear window.
  — Cathy Free, Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2024
• John Henry and Olivia jumped into the pool and made out to end the date.
  — Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 20 Oct. 2023
• Indeed, the chemistry of Hardy and Patel jumps off the screen.
  — Carole Horst, Variety, 31 Oct. 2023
• Still, the schoolgirl jumped from the back seat and pulled the key from the ignition, stopping the car from rolling.
  — Joanne Fowler, Peoplemag, 24 Sep. 2023
• After parking on the side of the road, the suspect jumped out to grab the girl, who outran him.
  — Andrea Vacchiano, Fox News, 30 Jan. 2024
• At the opening bell Friday, shares of Tesla Inc. jumped 6% to hit a new high for the year.
  — Tom Krisher, Anchorage Daily News, 9 June 2023
• The guys who try and jump out of the booth and right into a big league job, to me that’s a difficult thing.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2023
• Moore jumped up and snatched the ball out of the air for his second touchdown of the half in just over 15 minutes of play.
  — Scott Thompson, Fox News, 6 Oct. 2023
• Based on our count, the number of lifts will jump to 11, with eight being open to the public.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 16 Jan. 2024
• The teens were at a park near Fort Payne, and were jumping off a rock, Lasseter told the paper.
  — Tanasia Kenney The Charlotte Observer (tns), al, 26 July 2023
• After the shooting, cameras captured the man jump out of his car and run away.
  — Tanasia Kenney, Miami Herald, 9 Apr. 2024
• If the Sixers can't jump over the Heat and Pacers for the No. 6 seed, they won't be guaranteed to make the playoffs.
  — Bryan Toporek, Forbes, 30 Mar. 2024
• The dessert option also jumped from $60 to $65 per person.
  — Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 12 July 2023
• But before a firefighter could grab it, the fawn jumped back into the pipe.
  — Talia Lissauer, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2023
• Nationwide, prices for all goods and services have jumped about 20% over the last four years.
  — Don Lee, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2024
• Carrier stock jumped more than 4% ahead of the opening bell.
  — Anna Hirtenstein, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2023
• Portland Trail Blazers Portland had the fifth-best odds but jumped up to No. 3.
  — Jace Evans, USA TODAY, 17 May 2023
• It had been filed about eight hours after Nevaeh jumped out of the window at that trailer park.
  — Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 1 June 2023
• Saturday, the IronBirds held a 2-1 lead until the Renegades jumped ahead with two runs in the bottom of the eighth.
  — Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 6 June 2023

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jump

2 of 2 noun

• The horse took the first jump easily but balked at the second.
• Purple Rain is the latest film to make the jump from the screen to the stage.
  — Dave Quinn, Peoplemag, 9 Jan. 2024
• Their 65-point increase – a jump of 23% - is the largest in the majors.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 9 May 2023
• Making the jump with Dugan was her deputy, Ken Gabriel.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 5 Apr. 2024
• By the end of the game, the squad was performing one jump for every 10 points.
  — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Nov. 2023
• East was the spark from the jump, dropping a pair of 3s as Missouri grabbed the lead in the game’s opening minutes.
  — Calum McAndrew, Kansas City Star, 3 Mar. 2024
• Mitty came out and blitzed the Wolves from the jump as the Monarchs needed three minutes to score the first 13 points.
  — Nathan Canilao, The Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2024
• For many fast food restaurants, this means the jump to $20 per hour will be smaller.
  — Terry Chea, Fortune, 31 Mar. 2024
• Take a big jump to the left side landing softly on left foot with right knee raised.
  — Women's Health, 20 Apr. 2023
• And those streamers that have already made the jump are doubling down.
  — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Jan. 2024
• By the ‘80s, the X-Men topped Marvel comic book sales, but hadn’t made the jump to other media.
  — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 14 Mar. 2024
• Those ticket sales mark a 32% jump from the weekend prior.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 28 Jan. 2024
• And Cleveland Browns tailgaters who park in the Muni Lot could see their fee jump from $30 to as much as $50.
  — Courtney Astolfi, cleveland, 18 Sep. 2023
• The jump surpassed Owens’s best, the previous world record, by three inches.
  — Glenn Rifkin, New York Times, 1 May 2023
• Get a jump start on Thanksgiving by making the salad a day ahead.
  — Angela Brassinga, Sunset Magazine, 16 Nov. 2023
• The Warriors kept Davis from dominating at the rim, shut down his pick-and-roll game and forced him to take jump shots.
  — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 5 May 2023
• But the governor’s plan ran into problems from the jump.
  — Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2023
• The Search business earned $44 billion, an 11 percent jump year over year.
  — Jay Peters, The Verge, 24 Oct. 2023
• State lawmakers sent about $50 million to the school this year, a big jump from recent years.
  — Patricia Mazzei, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2023
• The kit includes four glow-in-the-dark toy foam rockets that are easy to set up and a jump pad that lets your kid shoot a rocket into the air.
  — Tanya Edwards, Parents, 4 Oct. 2023
• Even closer to home, Hamilton County Crime Lab records showed a jump.
  — The Enquirer, 21 Feb. 2024
• For now, that’s a 57% jump from last year’s low point over a similar stretch and a milestone worth noting.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2023
• The state also saw the highest weekly increase in prices seeing a 20-cent jump.
  — The Arizona Republic, 18 Aug. 2023
• He was frustrated from the jump about non-calls, but Caldwell-Pope knocked down three 3s for nine points in the fourth on three attempts.
  — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 2 May 2023
• The young boomers who switched jobs nearly every year at the start of their careers saw annual pay jumps of 6.5%, the BLS found.
  — Byirina Ivanova, Fortune, 2 Sep. 2023
• Given the time jump, original star Crowe is not involved in the sequel.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 7 Nov. 2023
• Yet this sequence — like the rest of the film — is played maddeningly straight, sparing us any jokes or jumps.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2023
• Emers won the event last year with a jump of 6-foot-3 and was a heavy favorite after jumping 6-foot-7 at regionals.
  — Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 27 May 2023
• The spark for the jump was a blast at a Gaza hospital that reportedly killed hundreds.
  — Stan Choe, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2023
• The store closures and price cap jump denotes not only a shift in the company’s growth strategy, but also the strong ripples of inflation.
  — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 8 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024