How to Use jack in a Sentence

jack

1 of 2 noun

• I'd buy that watch, but I don't have the jack right now.
• First, your jack-o-lantern's eyes start to squint.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 11 Oct. 2025
• Keep carved jack-o-lanterns in a cool, shady spot.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 11 Oct. 2025
• Light up a trick-or-treater's way with this bright spin on a jack-o'-lantern.
  — Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 15 July 2022
• Jacks took 137 balls to reach his 47.
  — Tim Spiers, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2025
• There’s a hiss and a thunk as the onboard jacks drop the car to the ground.
  — Angus MacKenzie, Robb Report, 7 Dec. 2023
• This way, your jack-o-lantern will remain fresh for trick-or-treaters.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 11 Oct. 2025
• Add a jack-o-lantern to the pile to get ready for Halloween.
  — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Oct. 2025
• On the scale of track-day flexes, air jacks is pretty high up there.
  — K.c. Colwell, Car and Driver, 18 Aug. 2023
• And for me, that meant jack of all trades, and this was all subconscious.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2025
• Jacks wasn’t alone in his desire for the ground to open up this morning.
  — Tim Spiers, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2026
• All-mountain boots are jacks of all trades, good in powder and on groomers.
  — Douglas Schnitzspahn, Travel + Leisure, 21 Dec. 2023
• Find a pumpkin patch and pick out the perfect gourd for your jack-o’-lantern.
  — Dallas News, 11 Oct. 2022
• There was a headphone jack, wi-fi, and a music player built right in.
  — Alex Cranz, The Verge, 29 July 2023
• Use this lantern template to create a classic spin on a jack-o'-lantern.
  — Monique Valeris, Good Housekeeping, 5 Oct. 2022
• 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
• Around the corroding skeletons of pump jacks, the ground is stained black from spills.
  — Mark Olalde, ProPublica, 22 Feb. 2024
• Finish your suncatcher with a jack-o-lantern face.
  — Ellen Sturm Niz, Parents, 8 Oct. 2025
• Right now, this jack of all trades is on sale for just $19 on Amazon.
  — Reece Andavolgyi, InStyle, 11 Jan. 2026
• Everyone was looking at me like a jack of all trades but a master of none.
  — Kyle Eustice, SPIN, 30 Jan. 2024
• There is no headphone jack or microSD slot.
  — Florence Ion, PC Magazine, 27 June 2026
• And then crews will move the new bridge into place using 8-ton jacks that are the size of a desk.
  — John Shumway, CBS News, 4 May 2026
• That painter was the one who found Lord under the vehicle jack.
  — Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Sep. 2025
• 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
• Initiate the parking brake to keep the car in place, then jack the car up with floor jacks and jack stands.
  — Keenan Thompson, USA Today, 23 Oct. 2025
• 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
• Hardly any smartphones made these days have an analog headphone jack.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
• Just know there's no headphone jack, and the performance can be stuttery now and then.
  — Haley Sprankle, WIRED, 10 Dec. 2022
• Make sure that the spare tire is properly inflated and the lug wrench and jack are still in the car.
  — John Paul, The Providence Journal, 30 Jan. 2026
• Carving out the insides of a jack o'lantern leaves you with a big ol mess of pumpkin seeds and innards.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 18 Oct. 2025

jack

2 of 2 verb

• They were stacked, jacked, ready.
  — Eric Ryan, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
• Taxis and hotels jack their prices.
  — Lauren Frayer, NPR, 25 Aug. 2025
• Skarsgård plays a young petty thief who jacks a car.
  — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 8 Aug. 2025
• Cars that no longer run list to the side, jacked up, tires in the air.
  — Latria Graham, Outside Online, 10 Apr. 2018
• If nothing else, at least I’d be jacked.
  — Jeremy Gordon, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2025
• Even in the case of free charging ports, there’s the risk of juice jacking.
  — Aly Walansky, Travel + Leisure, 2 Nov. 2025
• 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
• 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
• To jack up the heart rate, McGillis was racing against the clock.
  — Bryce Miller, sandiegouniontribune.com, 4 Apr. 2018
• 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
• Soaring home prices gave landlords an opening to jack up rents.
  — Lance Lambert, Fortune, 4 July 2022
• Hydraulic jacks come in two basic types—bottle jacks and floor jacks.
  — Field & Stream, 12 May 2020
• That’s because these hosts jack their prices up so high that their space goes unrented.
  — Lisa Ward, WSJ, 17 Sep. 2021
• He wasn’t jacked like Ah-nuld or JCVD.
  — John Devore, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2026
• All the tech like Bluetooth and backup cameras helps jack up the cost.
  — Erik Sherman, Fortune, 26 June 2019
• Experts say that means auction houses are free to use shills to jack up the bidding.
  — Dennis Wagner, azcentral, 24 June 2019
• Still the face mask boom prompted sellers to jack up prices and exploit demand.
  — Ray Sanchez, CNN, 15 Mar. 2020
• No one seems to jack around with the original case, which is nearly unheard of.
  — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 26 May 2020
• Initiate the parking brake to keep the car in place, then jack the car up with floor jacks and jack stands.
  — Keenan Thompson, USA Today, 23 Oct. 2025
• The geopolitical risk has jacked the market up to three-year highs.
  — Jessica Summers, Houston Chronicle, 11 Apr. 2018
• Stage lit for her entire set, which was packed with jacking, soulful house and zero lulls.
  — Annabel Ross, Billboard, 9 Dec. 2019
• After that trip, my quads and calves were absolutely jacked.
  — Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 Jan. 2026
• And he was jacked, a hulking man who was not afraid to drop-kick a kid who was part of a gang of evildoers.
  — Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 25 June 2026
• The citizenry is jacked up with contempt, and over the idea of true romance.
  — Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Know, 29 Sep. 2019
• Admission discounts can be hard to find, and nearby hotels jack up their rates.
  — Liz Weston, chicagotribune.com, 22 May 2018
• If the Fed jacks rates so high as to trigger a recession, banks won’t be cheering.
  — Aaron Back, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2018
• Everyone knows someone who has had their phone jacked at Coachella.
  — Vanessa Franko, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2026
• Adding sweeteners, cream, and other mix-ins can quickly jack up the total.
  — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 3 Dec. 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
• Then in April, the league jacked up the expansion fee to $200 million.
  — Brian Straus, SI.com, 20 Aug. 2019