jaunt

How To Use jaunt In A Sentence

• All the miracle of sails; the steady foresail; the sensitive jibs; the press canvas delicate as bubbles; the reliable main; the bluff topsails; topgallants like eager horses; the impertinent skysails; the jaunty moonraker, were just canvas stretched on poles. The Wind Bloweth
• But the boy Mohammed being by me objurgated-for I remarked in him a jaunty demeanour combined with neglectfulness of ceremonies-saluted it sulkily, muttering the while hints about the holiness of his birthplace exempting him from the trouble of stooping. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
• We used to go off on little jaunts on it while we were in Panama. Times, Sunday Times
• A busy owner could get to it cheaply from the UK and take it on little jaunts. Times, Sunday Times
• We were also greeted by a large man in rumpled chef's whites and a rakish black beret, a handkerchief knotted jauntily around his neck.
• The use of the word tilted in the sentence "Thinking caps tilted at a jaunty angle". EW.com: Today's Latest Headlines
• There is jaunty fairground music playing but one of the rabbits looks a bit mournful. The Sun
• It was light and breezy with jaunty incidental music and you could totally see what the producers had in mind. Times, Sunday Times
• We move around every few weeks to a new destination (with the exception of the winter months when we stay in Bonita Springs, FL for several months in a row, with occasional jaunts on the weekends). Zumbox: A Viable Paper Mail Killer?
• There ain't many jaunty little anecdotes. Times, Sunday Times