How To Use Jalopy In A Sentence

  • Joe leaped out, hoping to find the tyre tracks of Chet's jalopy. THE MYSTERY OF THE CHINESE JUNK
  • After all, he can't have Jane driving a "jalopy" to worship him on Sundays, now can he? The Iron Fist of Jesus
  • ‘Hey kids, I like your style,’ he drawled, peering through the fug of smoke, and the dim light of his dated jalopy.
  • `Need a hand with your bumf, Mark, or can you make it to the jalopy ? MUSIC FOR BOYS
  • **I may have incorporated some words/terms/concepts that amuse me (Mongol, ghee, Gobi/gobi (which amuses me because it's both the Mongol word for “waterless place” and the Hindi word for "cauliflower"), globetrotting, jalopy, and the names Pierce, Otto and Ratzinger). The Happy List: Words, + Brooklyn Arden Contest!
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  • Miscellaneous brays punctuate Asa's story, which is interrupted by a cutaway to a local funkster piloting his jalopy across the steppe, rocking out to "Rivers of Babylon. SF Weekly | Complete Issue
  • a hopped-up jalopy
  • The '56 Mercury sputtered along like an old jalopy.
  • Always a good rule, but you may be tempted to just load up the old jalopy, even for an overnighter.
  • After the wreck, the driver decides to try and make it home, dodging merging headlights like schools of blonde fractioning into failed deliveries and distances (D) tantamount with words likedog trackorjalopy — all traveling at a pace of 35 miles per hour through rain. Probability
  • So we drive the car home like Ma and Pa Kettle headin 'for the big city in their jalopy which is skirting all over the road. Unclebob Diary Entry
  • After the wreck, the driver decides to try and make it home, dodging merging headlights like schools of blonde fractioning into failed deliveries and distances (D) tantamount with words like dog track or jalopy — all traveling at a pace of 35 miles per hour through rain. Probability
  • What kind of jalopy, no-budg version of a scintillating NYC trend was this? Portland Mercury
  • The other day in the midst of Port-au-Prince, the great degraded capital city that is my home, I saw a car, an old battered car, a jalopy, falter and sputter and come to a slow halt.
  • The jalopy made a sharp turn to the left and banked through the clouds. Unleashed
  • She leaned out of the jalopy, and I hopped into her arms. Unleashed
  • We went back to viewing the before and after photos while some of the women hummed along to the tunes blaring from the neighbor's trembling jalopy. French Word-A-Day:
  • My jalopy may be old and ugly but it gets me where I want to go!
  • Also the stuff he's got there would overflow that jalopy of his. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
  • Willem lost the coin toss, meaning that there was no coin at all and I just gave him one of my carefully patented looks until he broke down like an old jalopy, and so he went to Walgreens for replacement 9-volt batteries. One More Thing
  • He was driving an old jalopy, but when Ernie Reisinger saw the car he said, ‘You can't drive that.
  • I remember Dave telling me how surprised he was that George was driving an old jalopy that barely ran.
  • This jalopy and I got into more trouble than you could shake a stick at! Unleashed
  • Well, the Navy just took its first taxi, and it's taking us where we need to go much faster than its old jalopy.
  • There was an older couple that picked me up who had been together since she was sixteen and he was seventeen, and they were driving around in an old jalopy, holding hands. Mike Ragogna: HuffPost Video Exclusive: Playing For Change's "Groove In G," Plus A Conversation With Author Paul Samuel Dolman
  • Why drive an old, out-dated jalopy when you can grip the road in a super-sleek sports car. Show Stoppah

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