How to Use jujitsu in a Sentence

jujitsu

noun

• Lou long ago gave up the sport but Mario still practices jujitsu.
  — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 17 Jan. 2026
• In jujitsu, fighters don’t strike.
  — Radostina Purvanova, The Conversation, 20 May 2025
• This one was from the heart of a 20-year-old jujitsu fighter who was last seen at the gym and was found dead in his bed two days later.
  — Emily Baumgaertner Ariana Drehsler, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2024
• The boy must finesse his demon, not overcome it, and do so by means of a kind of psychological jujitsu.
  — Elisabeth Egan, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2020
• Seehorn has been grappling with the weight of the day, attempting to use a form of emotional jujitsu on herself.
  — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 17 Aug. 2022
• Same as jujitsu or Spartan Races or cooking, that focus can feel euphoric.
  — Alexander George, Popular Mechanics, 8 July 2019
• And the thing that helps me in [Company], when my character practices jujitsu, frankly.
  — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 21 Apr. 2022
• This is one of many references Koze has made to Brazilian jujitsu, his most treasured pastime.
  — Sam Davies, Rolling Stone, 10 Mar. 2025
• The bike ride there and back plus actual jujitsu practice was three hours of physical activity.
  — Venita Blackburn, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2021
• Her accommodation of the army over the past five years was viewed by some as political jujitsu, rather than appeasement.
  — New York Times, 1 Feb. 2021
• That’s where Mitch Compton has outfitted a gym with a rowing machine, spin bike, battle ropes and a jujitsu mat.
  — Jen Murphy, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2017
• Some of the debate has played out within popular online forums for Brazilian jujitsu.
  — John Wiegand, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2023
• Neutrinos come in three flavors, morphing from one flavor to another by means of some quantum jujitsu.
  — Quanta Magazine, 8 Dec. 2016
• The billionaire reportedly took up jujitsu during the pandemic, when much of the world was in lockdown.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 9 May 2023
• Stevie Wonder was a paragon of musicality and awards show jujitsu.
  — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2016
• With a blue belt in jujitsu, Kaleb is excited to put his competitive edge to the test to win Charity’s heart.
  — Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 1 June 2023
• The two beetles face off in battle, until the first manages to get enough leverage to toss his romantic rival off the stump in a deft display of insect jujitsu.
  — Ars Technica, 14 Jan. 2025
• Pedro, an athlete whose sport is Brazilian jujitsu, would love to return to his exercise regimen.
  — Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2020
• Dormu happened to have an office in the same plaza as Rosenberg’s auto shop, between a jujitsu studio and a dentist’s office.
  — Annie Waldman, ProPublica, 24 May 2023
• He’s gone vegetarian, is learning Brazilian jujitsu with his son and has taken up drumming.
  — Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2022
• During the pandemic, the tech mogul took up the martial art of Brazilian jujitsu, winning gold and silver medals at a tournament in May.
  — Paige Hagy, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2023
• Zodiac Killer Project starts as an autopsy of a fail, and ends up dismantling the subgenre via a sort of cinematic jujitsu.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 21 Nov. 2025
• All of the kids practice jujitsu, and Bündchen herself had practiced kung fu in Boston for seven years, with sword and stick fighting — even into her ninth month of pregnancy.
  — Brittany Bowker, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Mar. 2023
• By getting their version of events out to the public, in advance of that of the Justice Department, the authors have performed a neat bit of publishing jujitsu.
  — Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, 26 Nov. 2019
• In recent years the coliseum hosted gun shows, a jujitsu championship and MC Hammer.
  — Author: Dan Zak, Anchorage Daily News, 23 May 2021
• There is a reward system at Guardian Baltimore, a nonprofit jujitsu gym in Remington.
  — Jon Meoli, baltimoresun.com, 11 Aug. 2021
• His mother, Fatima Lo, posted on Instagram a drawing of him climbing up into the sky, clad in his jujitsu uniform.
  — Terrence McCoy, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2022
• The filmmaker arrived in Los Angeles in the early ‘90s, offering to teach jujitsu at a martial arts school in exchange for a place to crash.
  — Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Dec. 2024
• The San Antonio Spurs team that beat the Heat in 2014 couldn’t have existed without their own salary-cap jujitsu.
  — Ben Cohen, WSJ, 5 July 2017
• Zuckerberg’s weekly workouts During the pandemic, the tech tycoon began training in Brazilian jujitsu, a type of martial art.
  — Alexa Mikhail, Fortune Well, 17 Aug. 2023