jitney

Example Sentences

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“When I was younger and couldn’t afford an actual vacation, I would bring my toddler on an adventure I called ‘the bus to the boat to the jitney to the beach,’ ” Coven said.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 18, 2023

But Wilson is less interested in mining any potential melodrama than he is in exploring the contrasting worldviews between the aptly named Youngblood and the older jitney drivers, who challenge, rebuke and encourage him.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2019

Who needs an on-call jitney in downtown Chicago?

From New York Times • May 15, 2018

The jitney came and she didn’t have long to wait; the hotel was a new one, surprisingly close by.

From Slate • Mar. 26, 2018

The jitney takes about twenty minutes to drop me off at Mr. Reilly’s work.

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson