How to Use jump in a Sentence

jump

1 of 2 verb

• The car jumped the curb.
• The cat jumped down off the table.
• She jumped to an early lead in the race.
• The circus lion jumped through the hoop.
• The runner jumped a hurdle.
• She jumped when she heard a loud knock late at night.
• He jumped into his truck and drove away.
• The fans were jumping up and down with excitement.
• Everyone was jumping for joy when we found out that we had won an award.
• Everyone jumped into the pool.
• Ant kind of stepped up and jumped up in the air.
  — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 21 Apr. 2026
• Soleil tried to jump the fence and caught her pants.
  — Tony Baranek, Chicago Tribune, 9 Mar. 2026
• Its stock jumped 12% on the day.
  — April Roach, CNBC, 6 Apr. 2026
• The Spurs jumped out to a quick lead.
  — David Troy Outkick, FOXNews.com, 10 June 2026
• So those are folks that just jump off on the radar for me.
  — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2026
• Babs had nearly jumped up in his seat.
  — Ben Mezrich, Vanity Fair, 6 Apr. 2026
• But the numbers jumped off the page.
  — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 7 Feb. 2026
• You guys never jumped the shark.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 13 May 2026
• Then the truck bumped over a rut and the tape deck jumped to life.
  — Emily Ruskovich, The Atlantic, 7 July 2026
• Jones jumped out and went to help her brother.
  — Michelle L. Quinn, Chicago Tribune, 6 Jan. 2026
• So if crude jumps 10%, gas prices will as well.
  — Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 1 Mar. 2026
• Let’s jump into some of that work.
  — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2026
• Most service providers jump to their pitch.
  — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
• Prices have jumped sharply in recent weeks.
  — Da Lin, CBS News, 30 Mar. 2026
• The cat jumped up onto the bed and lay with him.
  — Mary Gaitskill, New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2026
• Shares have jumped 185% in the year to date.
  — Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 3 June 2026
• Bain’s first-place vote total jumped from two to five.
  — Mitch Sherman, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
• The stock has jumped more than 200% year to date.
  — Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 23 Sep. 2025
• Still, Rocky chose not to jump into the fray.
  — Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 23 Sep. 2025
• The name on that list that jumps out right now is Bednar.
  — Pierre Lebrun, New York Times, 26 May 2026

jump

2 of 2 noun

• The horse took the first jump easily but balked at the second.
• The last three jumps felt good.
  — Steve Brand, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Apr. 2026
• But his jump shot was ice-cold.
  — Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 4 Mar. 2026
• The rise off the lip of the jump.
  — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2026
• Don’t go off-trail or jump fences.
  — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 June 2026
• Does that mean there’s a time jump?
  — Deputy Managing Editor, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2026
• The lefty’s jump shot needs a tune-up.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2026
• A lot to take in right from the jump.
  — Tom Smyth, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2025
• Jaylen Brown made one pull-up jump shot.
  — John Hollinger, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2026
• The chance for a jump to 2-3 is there.
  — Miami Herald, 21 Sep. 2025
• That first initial jump was so fast.
  — Dana Feldman, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
• Hugh has a somewhat large jump and a dash.
  — Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 17 Mar. 2026
• That is a big jump from this morning.
  — Joe Dwinell, Boston Herald, 23 Feb. 2026
• And that jump may take them a little while.
  — Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
• One of the largest jumps came in patches.
  — Laura Trujillo, USA Today, 17 Apr. 2026
• That’s a big jump from just 27% a year ago.
  — Sara B. Hansen, Denver Post, 9 May 2026
• And, of course, getting a good jump.
  — Matt Gelb, New York Times, 1 May 2026
• But the jump he’s made over the last year, to me, is very clear.
  — Josh Yohe, New York Times, 27 May 2026
• That was the third-largest jump among major cities.
  — Sasha Hupka, AZCentral.com, 3 Sep. 2025
• Watch the video above to see the jump-scare reunion.
  — Seth Carnell, USA Today, 20 Feb. 2026
• Check out their full list of tour dates after the jump.
  — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 27 Aug. 2025
• So, her husband walked in and jump-shot a few ducks.
  — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 16 Oct. 2025
• For its final scene, the movie makes a five-year time jump.
  — Gerrad Hall, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Oct. 2025
• He could be primed to make a big jump next season, though.
  — Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
• The two events are best trick and best whip, which is a stylish jump over a gap.
  — Sean Campbell, Sacbee.com, 25 June 2026
• No rap songs were close enough to the threshold to be able to make that jump.
  — Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 29 Oct. 2025
• The quality of stuff has made a jump this year.
  — Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
• But at some point that jump is going to happen.
  — Nick Suss, Nashville Tennessean, 17 Oct. 2025
• That is a big jump from last year’s 40 percent.
  — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 18 June 2026
• The whole point is to eliminate that from the jump.
  — Colleen Kane, Chicago Tribune, 15 Mar. 2026