How to Use jack in a Sentence

jack

1 of 2 noun
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  • I'd buy that watch, but I don't have the jack right now.
  • There’s a hiss and a thunk as the onboard jacks drop the car to the ground.
    — Angus MacKenzie, Robb Report, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Light up a trick-or-treater's way with this bright spin on a jack-o'-lantern.
    — Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 15 July 2022
  • Cut out the carving for way less messy jack-o'-lanterns.
    — Jessica Leigh Mattern, Country Living, 24 Aug. 2022
  • The phone has two USB-C ports, one on the side and one on the bottom, and a headphone jack.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Adelstein was holding the seven and eight of clubs; Lew the jack of clubs and the four of hearts.
    — Andrea Changstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2022
  • If as the cards lie East covers with the jack, South’s queen loses to West.
    — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 11 Mar. 2024
  • But like the removal of the 3.5mm headphone jack, the SIM card is going away.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Find a pumpkin patch and pick out the perfect gourd for your jack-o’-lantern.
    — Dallas News, 11 Oct. 2022
  • The body was found wrapped in heavy tire chains and anchored to the bottom of the lake with a hydraulic jack.
    — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 19 Dec. 2023
  • The iPad 9th gen is the only iPad to feature a 3.5mm headphone jack.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Step 4: Elevate the car with the jack Place the jack behind the front wheels or in front of the back wheels just under the door.
    — Lauren Farrell, Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug. 2023
  • East would save the jack of clubs and Q-10 of hearts, and South could exit with his last club for an end play.
    — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 4 Feb. 2024
  • On the scale of track-day flexes, air jacks is pretty high up there.
    — K.c. Colwell, Car and Driver, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Around the corroding skeletons of pump jacks, the ground is stained black from spills.
    — Mark Olalde, ProPublica, 22 Feb. 2024
  • But the bad news is that the headphone jack that held on for so long in the Pixel A-series is now gone.
    — Brandon Widder, The Verge, 1 Apr. 2023
  • The bottom has two speakers, a USB-C port, and a headphone jack.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 21 Sep. 2022
  • All-mountain boots are jacks of all trades, good in powder and on groomers.
    — Douglas Schnitzspahn, Travel + Leisure, 21 Dec. 2023
  • But Duffy, the jack of all trades, drilled a 24-yard field goal to put the Cardinals back in control in the fourth and on the precipice of a trip to Foxboro.
    — Jake Levin, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Nov. 2022
  • This approach is one of the things that makes the popular hi-lift style of off-road jack the wrong choice.
    — Wes Siler, Outside Online, 24 Aug. 2022
  • When declarer went to dummy and led a club to her jack, West won and cashed two spades.
    — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Well pads are shown in yellow, oil pump jacks are shown in red, and storage tanks are shown in blue.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 15 Feb. 2024
  • There was a headphone jack, wi-fi, and a music player built right in.
    — Alex Cranz, The Verge, 29 July 2023
  • Michelle Tirado sat on the ground twisting a jack that was propping the trailer up.
    — Kyle Swenson, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Use this lantern template to create a classic spin on a jack-o'-lantern.
    — Monique Valeris, Good Housekeeping, 5 Oct. 2022
  • The plane, now propped up on jacks, creaks in the wind and strips of insulation flutter from holes in the fuselage.
    — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Kogut's plan is to carve it to make a giant jack-o-lantern for Halloween and display it in his front yard.
    — Maria M. Silva, USA TODAY, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Say goodbye to the tiresome jack-stand boogie and hello to the quick driveway oil change.
    — Katherine Keeler, Car and Driver, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Sharpe fixed the intonation, filed down some the frets on the neck and tightened up input jack.
    — Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Ron Dong became a high school teacher and Lloyd Dong Jr. became a jack of many trades, including a tax preparer.
    — Lynda Lin Grigsby, NBC News, 6 Mar. 2024
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jack

2 of 2 verb
  • Cars that no longer run list to the side, jacked up, tires in the air.
    — Latria Graham, Outside Online, 10 Apr. 2018
  • To jack up the heart rate, McGillis was racing against the clock.
    — Bryce Miller, sandiegouniontribune.com, 4 Apr. 2018
  • So jack up the front of the car, which gets the coolant fill neck as high as possible.
    — Mike Allen, Popular Mechanics, 11 Dec. 2019
  • Then in April, the league jacked up the expansion fee to $200 million.
    — Brian Straus, SI.com, 20 Aug. 2019
  • Trump has had two-and-a-half years to jack things up and push us further away from progress.
    — Tanya A. Christian, Essence, 24 July 2019
  • All the tech like Bluetooth and backup cameras helps jack up the cost.
    — Erik Sherman, Fortune, 26 June 2019
  • Teams get jacked up to put on a show in front of that crowd and, of course, that includes LeBron James.
    — Geoff Clark, USA TODAY Sportsbook Wire, 22 Jan. 2020
  • Grabbing 12 boards, Smith scored more inside, didn’t jack up a ton of 3s — and made the play of the night and his career.
    — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 3 Jan. 2022
  • Taxi drivers won’t rip you off, and no one will jack up the price at a restaurant or shop.
    — Sarah Souli, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Oct. 2018
  • The citizenry is jacked up with contempt, and over the idea of true romance.
    — Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Know, 29 Sep. 2019
  • No one seems to jack around with the original case, which is nearly unheard of.
    — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 26 May 2020
  • Experts say that means auction houses are free to use shills to jack up the bidding.
    — Dennis Wagner, azcentral, 24 June 2019
  • If the Fed jacks rates so high as to trigger a recession, banks won’t be cheering.
    — Aaron Back, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2018
  • But the duo is kneecapped by a dearth of olive oil that leaves the condiment tasting less like a sauce and more like tomato paste jacked up with oregano.
    — Dominic Armato, azcentral, 16 July 2019
  • Still the face mask boom prompted sellers to jack up prices and exploit demand.
    — Ray Sanchez, CNN, 15 Mar. 2020
  • When a team can’t score inside, they’re forced to jack up perimeter shots, and Auburn defends the perimeter very well.
    — al, 8 Jan. 2022
  • The city will be able to jack up the price of the lease to fair market value or back out of the deal if The Other Side Village doesn’t meet the requirements.
    — Blake Apgar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Hydraulic jacks come in two basic types—bottle jacks and floor jacks.
    — Field & Stream, 12 May 2020
  • The geopolitical risk has jacked the market up to three-year highs.
    — Jessica Summers, Houston Chronicle, 11 Apr. 2018
  • Later, Kylie showed off her first Coachella ensemble of the year, a shiny tan jacked and pants with a with a white crop top.
    — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 15 Apr. 2018
  • That’s because these hosts jack their prices up so high that their space goes unrented.
    — Lisa Ward, WSJ, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Soaring home prices gave landlords an opening to jack up rents.
    — Lance Lambert, Fortune, 4 July 2022
  • The new divertor lining has allowed the researchers to jack up the plasma pulse time to 26 seconds.
    — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 26 June 2018
  • One thing that worries Tannenbaum is the risk of knock-on effects from the Fed’s move to jack up interest rates.
    — Don Leestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2022
  • Find your jacking point (usually just behind the front wheel opening at the front, and just ahead of the rear wheel opening at the rear) and jack the car up.
    — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 13 Dec. 2018
  • Nick Jonas was trending on Twitter through much of the telecast, thanks to his jacked up, one-suspender red carpet look.
    — Chris Payne, Billboard, 20 May 2018
  • Adding sweeteners, cream, and other mix-ins can quickly jack up the total.
    — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 3 Dec. 2018
  • Stage lit for her entire set, which was packed with jacking, soulful house and zero lulls.
    — Annabel Ross, Billboard, 9 Dec. 2019
  • In her one-on-one sessions Handley teaches other skills like how to jack up your car and change a tire.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Thursday’s report underscored that the Fed may have to jack up its key short-term rate even higher than had been expected — and keep it there longer — to curb inflation.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2022

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