How to Use jackrabbit in a Sentence

jackrabbit

noun

• Watch for mule deer, coyotes, and large jackrabbits.
  — Taryn Shorr-McKee, Travel + Leisure, 21 June 2026
• The dry yellow grass of the plains grows high as a jackrabbit, enough to hide two sleeping kids.
  — Longreads, 3 Aug. 2017
• Locals says the base knows every desert tortoise and jackrabbit that hops the fence.
  — Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, 14 Sep. 2017
• As Gloria liked to say, Mom could show a three-legged jackrabbit and take home a ribbon.
  — Andrew Norman Wilson, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
• Not long ago, Forney was a sleepy rural town known for an 8-foot-tall jackrabbit statue.
  — Dallas News, 5 Oct. 2022
• Best not to overthink the simple pleasures here—among them dead-perfect needle drops and a jackrabbit pace.
  — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 13 Sep. 2023
• The preferred diet of jackrabbits is grass, but that can be hard to find, especially in the hottest desert months.
  — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Oct. 2023
• That's what happens when the jackrabbit sprint of youthful tech companies inevitably slows.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 17 June 2017
• Keep your eyes peeled along the way for native wildlife, such as jackrabbits and coyotes below, or hawks riding thermals up in the sky.
  — Nicholas Derenzo, AFAR Media, 16 Sep. 2025
• Earlier that week, a horseback ride revealed a jackrabbit, a school of jumping fish, and a dry pond bed littered with fish bones.
  — Annabelle Canela, Parents, 7 Dec. 2025
• Some drivers like to do those jackrabbit starts, pushing the pedal to the metal and skyrocketing down the street.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 28 May 2021
• Crouching over skunk prints and jackrabbit pellets feels analog by contrast, even anachronistic.
  — Ben Goldfarb, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
• There were sudden inundations of green worms, then starving jackrabbits that swarmed out of the hills, darting eerily about.
  — Kevin Baker, Harper's magazine, 10 May 2019
• Those species included 19 mammals ranging is size from jackrabbits, striped skunks and coatis to mule deer, white-tail deer and bears.
  — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 27 Nov. 2024
• In between, there are stretches of wide valleys filled with junipers, pinyon pines, and jackrabbits peeking out from the sagebrush.
  — Tamara Gane, Travel + Leisure, 15 June 2026
• Total spending, or aggregate demand, rose at a jackrabbit 6%.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 19 May 2026
• Instead of soaring freeways, the desert trails of migrating javelina, jackrabbits and deer each have their own unique traffic pattern.
  — Sam Kmack, The Arizona Republic, 9 July 2024
• That includes protagonists like Thornton and events like the clubbing of jackrabbits that arrived en masse.
  — Manuel Mendoza, Dallas News, 21 Feb. 2020
• Some tours include lunch or dinner; all include sightings of jackrabbits and the occasional Joshua trees.
  — Matt Villano, Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
• On those early morning runs, the desert air is crisp and the trails are quiet and empty, save for the occasional jackrabbit darting between shrubs.
  — Molly Mirhashem, Outside Online, 6 Oct. 2016
• The dining room — spare and neutral in color, save for a wild mural depicting geometric symbols and a large jackrabbit — wasn’t quite full.
  — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2024
• Even the world-weary Marjorie, whom Cooper plays with muted energy, is an unlikely and horny jackrabbit.
  — Naveen Kumar, Variety, 24 July 2023
• Like a family of jackrabbits, the breed of subcompact luxury crossovers is multiplying at an alarming rate.
  — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 20 Feb. 2020
• Likewise, when there is a jackrabbit among other cars, there is likely a road rage that can emerge as other drivers try to cut off that Indy car or catch up and try to tell them off.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 28 May 2021
• Jackalope The jackalope is often described as a jackrabbit with antelope horns.
  — Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 10 Oct. 2024
• As for the pincushion plant, some indifferent animal (probably a jackrabbit) likes to bite off the entire flowering heads—spikes and all.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 4 Mar. 2016
• Eastern and northern coyotes can approach 60 pounds, while those from the southwest generally weigh half as much, even after a jackrabbit buffet.
  — Richard Mann, Field & Stream, 17 Sep. 2019
• The Sonoran Desert's antelope jackrabbit is one of the largest hares in North America and can weigh up to 10 pounds.
  — Shelby Slade, The Arizona Republic, 25 July 2024
• Unfortunately, the abundance of grasses won’t translate to more food for the desert tortoises, jackrabbits and mule deer, whose palates lean toward the native plants that buffelgrass crowds out.
  — Shi En Kim, AZCentral.com, 13 Mar. 2026
• EVs deliver lots more rotational power—torque—to the wheels; that’s why EVs take off like a jackrabbit when your foot touches the accelerator.
  — Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2021