JAR in a Sentence

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For JAR, below is one of 57 sentences:
She did not like to drop the jar for fear of killing somebody, so managed to put it into one of the cupboards as she fell past it.

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 Meanings and Examples of JAR
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
jar
 n.  pitcher; vase; small, cylindrical container for food, normally made of glass or clay
Classic Sentence: (43 in 3 pages)
1  She picked up the cologne bottle and took a large mouthful, carefully rinsed her mouth and then spit into the slop jar.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
2  She hid the sacred family phonograph in the dining-room, and replaced its stand with a square cabinet on which was a squat blue jar between yellow candles.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  She divined that when Aunt Bessie came in with a jar of wild-grape jelly she was waiting in hope of being asked for the recipe.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
4  "Yes, it would jar you to have Bert butting in," he said amiably.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
5  It seemed as though, by some nameless, interior volition, he would fain have shocked into them the same fiery emotion accumulated within the Leyden jar of his own magnetic life.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 36. The Quarter-Deck.
6  In thoughts of the visions of the night, I saw long rows of angels in paradise, each with his hands in a jar of spermaceti.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 94. A Squeeze of the Hand.
7  In an instant the contents assumed a dull mahogany colour, and a brownish dust was precipitated to the bottom of the glass jar.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES
8  Wildeve made no reply; and probably feeling that the sooner he treated them the sooner they would go, he produced a stone jar, which threw a warm halo over matters at once.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 5 Perplexity among Honest People
9  Then, getting up, he went to the tobacco jar on the mantel, and with his back to us began to fill his pipe.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In I
10  I found it in a sealed jar, that by chance, I suppose, had been really hermetically sealed.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VIII
11  They put in with a stone two-gallon jar for some beer.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LIV
12  Early in June it happened that Agafea Mihalovna, the old nurse and housekeeper, in carrying to the cellar a jar of mushrooms she had just pickled, slipped, fell, and sprained her wrist.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 2
13  He had a feeling that any smile would jar on them.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 4
14  He brought forth a great stone jar of whisky from the locker and filled the decanter slowly, bending now and then to see how much he had poured in.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
15  Then replacing the jar in the locker he poured a little of the whisky into two glasses, added a little water and came back with them to the fireplace.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
Example Sentence:
1  Turn the jar upside down and shake it.
2  The jolt seemed to jar every bone in her body.
3  A jar of pickle will contain pickled cabbage.
4  After three scoops the jar was nearly empty.
5  Place the jar in warm water to soak the label off.
6  The orange curtains jar with the red furniture.
7  Screw the lid firmly on to the jar and shake well.
8  She did not like to drop the jar for fear of killing somebody, so managed to put it into one of the cupboards as she fell past it.
9  She did not like to drop the jar for fear of killing somebody, so managed to put it into one of the cupboards.
10  We'd had a few jars down the pub.
11  Machines now exist to pack olives in jars.
12  The red carpet jars with the furniture.
13  The boy's manner of speech jarred on the teacher, who came from a different part of the country.
14  People still remembered the earthquake that had jarred this region last July.