How to Use jack-of-all-trades in a Sentence

jack-of-all-trades

noun

• Aho is a jack-of-all-trades two-way center.
  — Shayna Goldman, New York Times, 1 May 2026
• Agee was and is something of a jack-of-all-trades.
  — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 22 Aug. 2025
• Gay, a free agent signee, is a jack-of-all-trades linebacker who has shined in camp.
  — Miami Herald, 14 Aug. 2025
• These and so many more uses make the pantry staple a real jack-of-all-trades around the house.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 13 May 2026
• Steve Clifford’s successor will have to be a jack-of-all-trades.
  — Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 22 Apr. 2024
• He’ll also be involved in the offense and will return kicks as a jack-of-all-trades.
  — Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Aug. 2025
• With all these features, the DreamCloud is a jack-of-all-trades type of bed.
  — Alora Bopray, USA Today, 25 Apr. 2026
• Ausar is a jack-of-all-trades, and the Pistons are high on his long-term potential.
  — Detroit Free Press, 23 June 2023
• One was Lewis, who is a bit of a jack-of-all-trades-type but rooted as a nickel corner.
  — Joe Buscaglia, The Athletic, 23 Dec. 2024
• Siakam is still a jack-of-all-trades, All-Star-quality player.
  — Eric Koreen, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2025
• Mike has a charm that’s lovable and likely rooted in Rex’s jack-of-all-trades background.
  — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 29 Nov. 2024
• Anker’s jack-of-all-trades travel adapter packs enough ports to refill your devices during some downtime.
  — Sheena Vasani, The Verge, 23 May 2026
• If there were a jack-of-all-trades mineral, many researchers would give the honor to magnesium.
  — Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Scientific American, 16 Feb. 2024
• The jack-of-all-trades will add to his versatility this fall, returning kicks.
  — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Aug. 2023
• Read on for more details on these new gaming boxes, starting with the jack-of-all-trades Triton.
  — Matthew Buzzi, PC Magazine, 16 May 2025
• In Andersson, Vegas added somewhat of a jack-of-all-trades on the back end.
  — Shayna Goldman, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2026
• Those jack-of-all-trades attachments are part of it, but so are this Shark top seller’s four heat and three airflow options.
  — Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 23 June 2026
• Peter Tailer was a jack-of-all-trades buzzing with creativity, his daughter said.
  — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 8 June 2023
• This jack-of-all-trades serum is the brand’s hero product that Crawford uses daily to prime her skin before makeup.
  — Reece Andavolgyi, InStyle, 20 Feb. 2026
• Since then, their son, the pitmaster Greg Gatlin, has become a barbecue jack-of-all-trades.
  — Kayla Stewart, Bon Appétit, 23 Feb. 2024
• Generally used as a step between cleanser and moisturizer, the best toners are jacks-of-all-trades.
  — Dana Leigh Smith, Glamour, 23 Jan. 2025
• Jones is a jack-of-all-trades, master-of-none by NBA standards who will need to be a lights-out shooter to stick.
  — Sam Vecenie, New York Times, 26 June 2026
• None of those jack-of-all-trades models came up with the hypotheses that proved experimentally correct.
  — Elie Dolgin, IEEE Spectrum, 25 Sep. 2025
• Tablets, for instance, are jacks-of-all-trades, giving you a single screen for streaming, scrolling, reading, light work, and the occasional email.
  — Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 26 June 2026
• In creating jacks-of-all-trades, there aren’t many masters-of-one left, and even fewer age-appropriate apprentices around to take the lead.
  — Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
• Radical is pitching this category of aircraft as a kind of jack-of-all-trades that can fill gaps left by satellites, drones, and conventional planes.
  — Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 29 Oct. 2025
• Castor oil has long been considered a jack-of-all-trades home remedy, used as a laxative, a moisturizer and as a chest rub to ease lung congestion.
  — Katie Camero, NBC News, 5 Aug. 2023
• That lack of experience has especially hurt the writers who go on to become showrunners, or the jack-of-all-trades who manage the creative aspects of a show.
  — Emma Roth, The Verge, 14 July 2023
• This bomber jacket is the ultimate jack-of-all-trades, effortlessly going with everything in your closet while keeping you looking fab.
  — Daisy Maldonado, Glamour, 2 Dec. 2024
• For a once-dependable, jack-of-all-trades forward, those numbers were far more akin to his rookie season back in 2013-14.
  — Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2025