jack

Example Sentences

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Another young listener in Poland just nods her head to the beat, and writes: “Być jak Kim Gordon!”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2024

She conjured up airy interiors of fluid space for family gatherings and Buddhist ceremonies, the rooms circulating around a sweeping staircase, the building made with homegrown timbers like jak and halmilla.

From New York Times • Feb. 19, 2022

In the gardens which line the suburbs of Galle in the direction of Matura the stems of the coco-nut and jak trees are profusely covered with the shells of the beautiful striped Helix hamastoma.

From Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon by Tennent, James Emerson, Sir

The same in Garo, where the sign of the genitive is ni, we have; mánde-ní jak, the hand of man, or the human hand; ambal-ní ketháli, a wooden knife, or a knife of wood.

From Lectures on The Science of Language by Müller, Max

The various articles are then placed under a jak tree, on the eastern side of the house if possible.

From Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Thurston, Edgar