How To Use Jackknife In A Sentence
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The shorter girl snarled her frustration and lunged after him with her jackknife, tearing a horizontal gash in his right pant leg.
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Part of Interstate 81 near Syracuse, N.Y., closed when tractor-trailers jackknifed on an icy uphill stretch.
Ferocious winter storm shocks Northeast with snow, floods
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Rollo proffered his jackknife, but Conrad ignored him, finally freeing the woman from the clutches of the seine.
AMAGANSETT
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They were sitting in front of the fire house drinking beer when the tractor trailer jackknifed through the guardrail.
Lloyd
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The creature drew her front legs together, folding them like a jackknife.
MINUTES TO BURN
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We used the jackknife version of cross-validation, where the training set consists of the complete network minus a single specified edge.
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Students then jackknife their legs even closer to their bodies to the rhythm of a driving beat.
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Further work might include the more accurate estimation of distribution of our estimator, using bootstrap or jackknife techniques.
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I travel with a teeny tiny jackknife/scissors combo for just that kind of exigency, which I would like to have you know was CONFISCATED JUST TODAY AT CHICAGO O'HARE AIRPORT.
The Prairie Babe School
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I jackknife up in bed, peer out.
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Jimjim's body suddenly jackknifed, wrenching his figure to the side.
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With his opponent flat in the center of the ring, Van Dam climbs to the top turnbuckle, springs across the ring crouching and extending his torso like a diver performing a jackknife.
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The second-order jackknife estimator incorporates the number of uniques, duplicates, and the number of quadrats sampled.
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A semi-tractor and trailer jackknifed coming down the icy hill on Northeast North Woodinville Way at about the 14500 block.
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With a harsh indrawn breath, I jackknife to a sitting position.
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With a jackknife, he whittled a point on a thin green stick pulled from a maple branch.
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The tow truck driver who pulled our rig out of the mud jackknifed it and broke out the pickup's rear window.
Michael Thornton: 'Workampers': What It's Like to Wander Around the Country in an RV Desperately Looking for Work
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Swerving slightly, he immediately slammed on the breaks, the inertia causing me to jackknife forward in my seat.
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With a harsh indrawn breath, I jackknife to a sitting position.
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He tore off a segment of bread and slathered it with a jackknife blade of butter.
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The mate shouted to him in the full strength of his lungs to "Bear a hand and lay in off the yard," and unjustly berated him as a "lubber," while the poor fellow was tugging away, and working with might and main, to disengage his tail from the lift, in which he at length succeeded, but not without the aid of his jackknife.
Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale
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He tore off a segment of bread and slathered it with a jackknife blade of butter.
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It would be best if I were caught in a situation like the two motorists who had been killed recently when a semitrailer jackknifed on the highway.
Chocolate & Vicodin
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A jackknifed tractor trailer is blocking three Inner Loop lanes on the Beltway just north of Bradley Road, according to Maryland State Police.
Overturned tractor trailer on Md. Beltway
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He tore off a segment of bread and slathered it with a jackknife blade of butter.
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Occasionally, low Bremer support is correlated with a high jackknife percentage, e.g., at the node separating the Wnt1 subfamily from the rest of the tree and at the base of the vertebrate Wnt 10 sequences.
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The man thrashed his legs and jackknifed his body, but the soldiers lifted him off the ground, raising him so high that his feet pedaled the air.
The Omega Theory
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Michael thrashed his legs and jackknifed his body, just like the hooded man had done, but Angel and Jordan were too strong.
The Omega Theory
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With a jackknife, he whittled a point on a thin green stick pulled from a maple branch.
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A double-semi had jackknifed, neatly shutting down four lanes.
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I ducked down in onto my hands and knees, and right before my eyes, I saw the jackknife that Todd was carrying discarded on the ground, it was tremendously shiny, and glittered in the company of a red handle.
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The snow came down in handfuls and cars jackknifed to the left and right of us as we drove east on unplowed streets.
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I dreamed last night that a large tractor trailer truck carrying a huge load of bricks jackknifed on a main street in my town.
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And in Montgomery County, a jackknifed tractor trailer led to delays on the Inner Loop lanes of the Beltway just north of Bradley Road, but officials said the scene had been cleared.
Rain amends some school schedules
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Mr William tried to slow down by pumping his brakes but the vehicle jackknifed in the road while trying to avoid Mr Utting.
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Among this group were men who could do anything from butchering a cow to fixing a motor with a piece of wire or operating on a casualty with a jackknife.
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The snow came down in handfuls and cars jackknifed to the left and right of us as we drove east on unplowed streets.
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Adam had chosen a jackknife rather than a fixed blade.
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The creature drew her front legs together, folding them like a jackknife.
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Like the jackknife and the bootstrap, randomization methods are free from potentially unwarranted normal theory assumptions such as normally distributed populations.
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Bootstrap and jackknife analyses were performed under the MP criterion, with equal weights for all positions and two random additions of sequences for 200 replicate searches.
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Rollo proffered his jackknife, but Conrad ignored him, finally freeing the woman from the clutches of the seine.
AMAGANSETT
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Though his past leaps of faith have had about as much grace as a jackknife into a leaf-covered pool, bringing Gibbs back has ‘reverse pike triple somersault’ written all over it.
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A spasm jackknifed me, crunched the air right out of me.
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He doubled up like a jackknife, fell back against the gangway gate, which had not been properly fastened, and shot through it into the tideway, here very swift, and disappeared.
The Boy Scouts on the Yukon
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Amber Smith, a stately beauty from Season Two, seemed more or less unafflicted until we saw her going through detox — jackknifed over the trash can and probing her epiglottis with a long finger.
Retching With the Stars
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Higher-order jackknife estimates lead to successively greater reductions in the bias of the estimates of N d, but at the cost of increasing sampling variance.
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To evaluate clade support, bootstrap and jackknife analyses were performed in PAUP * using a full heuristic search with 1000 replicates, simple addition sequence, and TBR branch-swapping.
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Similarly, neither of the two units will be damaged if the trailer jackknifes with respect to the tractor.
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The jackknife was in my hand as soon as my fumbling fingers could manage the pockets on my jumpsuit.
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The snow came down in handfuls and cars jackknifed to the left and right of us as we drove east on unplowed streets.
