JOG in a Sentence

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For JOG, below is one of 28 sentences:
Hans took out his pocket-handkerchief, put the piece of silver into it, threw it over his shoulder, and jogged off on his road homewards.

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 Meanings and Examples of JOG
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
jog
 v.  run or ride at a steady slow trot; give a push or shake to
Classic Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  TOM dodged hither and thither through lanes until he was well out of the track of returning scholars, and then fell into a moody jog.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
2  Mityuha only gave a jog to his hat and pulled the reins off the heated shaft-horse.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
3  At Christmas time Frank Kennedy and a small troop from the commissary department jogged up to Tara on a futile hunt for grain and animals for the army.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
4  He laughed with Myrtle, jogged her elbow when she was filling cups, made deep mock bows to the waitresses as they came up for coffee.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
5  They jogged from San Diego and La Jolla to Los Angeles, Pasadena, Riverside, through towns with bell-towered missions and orange-groves; they viewed Monterey and San Francisco and a forest of sequoias.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
6  Meantime, the hoisted sperm whale's head jogged about very violently, and Gabriel was seen eyeing it with rather more apprehensiveness than his archangel nature seemed to warrant.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 71. The Jeroboam's Story.
7  Mr. Haley and Tom jogged onward in their wagon, each, for a time, absorbed in his own reflections.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
8  But about three o'clock George's ear caught the hasty and decided click of a horse's hoof coming behind them at some distance and jogged Phineas by the elbow.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
9  Well, we jogged on together some time, till Alfred saw plainly that I was no planter.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
10  Hans took out his pocket-handkerchief, put the piece of silver into it, threw it over his shoulder, and jogged off on his road homewards.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In HANS IN LUCK
11  So on he jogged, and all seemed now to go right with him: he had met with some misfortunes, to be sure; but he was now well repaid for all.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In HANS IN LUCK
12  As he jogged along over the fields, singing and dancing, a little dwarf met him, and asked him what made him so merry.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE MISER IN THE BUSH
13  After we had jogged on for some little time, I asked the carrier if he was going all the way.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 5. I AM SENT AWAY FROM HOME
14  The little five-year-old boy, on hearing this hubbub overhead, and chilled with terror, jogged his brother's elbow; but the elder brother had already shut his peepers, as Gavroche had ordered.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ...
15  It was about ten in the morning, bright with a faint breeze, and we jogged leisurely southward in the valley of the Flint.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VII
Example Sentence:
1  I would jog around the ponds, and around them, again and again.
2  The Thomas Cook debacle should jog policymakers into realizing that few travelers merely sign up to a package based on a destination's climate or vibes.
3  He was walking at a very quick pace and I had to jog to keep up with him.
4  After an exhausting drill in oppressive heat, Mia Hamm jogged off the field.
5  A few years ago jogging was the in thing.
6  She wore a bright green jogging suit with a white stripe down the sides.
7  Since I started jogging I've lost three and a half inches from my waistline.
8  She started jogging twice a week to try to reduce her waistline.
9  If your jogging clothes weren't made out of permeable fabric, you'd drown in your own perspiration.
10  Addressing the jogging class, Kim would underscore the importance to runners of good nutrition.
11  People who have not been active for several months should not start their jogging program with a long or intense run.