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"Jig" in a Sentence (26 examples)
The jig is up; let's face the music like men.
The jig, reel and hornpipe are the most popular Irish dances.
The Irish jig and the French gigue differ in speed, microrhythmics, and German gender.
Tom burst out laughing when he saw Mary dancing a jig.
At last the jig is up.
The jig was up when the cops found half a ton of marijuana in Yanni's studio.
The jig is up.
Your jig is up.
The jig is up! Come out with your hands up!
When Tom saw Mary dancing a jig, he burst out in spontaneous laughter.
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They danced a jig.
Soon Marshall is doing an elaborate foot-to-foot jig, and then they're all bounding around. Shoulder dips. Yee-ha faces. It's an impromptu hoedown.
They were waked out of their bunks one black night by yells of "Squid O!" from Salters, and for an hour and a half every soul aboard hung over his squid-jig—a piece of lead painted red and armed at the lower end with a circle of pins bent backward like half-opened umbrella ribs.
Cutting circles out of pinewood is best done with a compass-style jig.
The bodywork employs, where possible, the same constructional methods as for the standard B.R. coaching stock, in order to utilise existing jigs and press tools.
The craze for realism now led the toy manufacturers to try to make their models from still secret plans for the new cars. Should a car firm scrap its plans and jigs, the toy firm had to follow suit.
A jig shall be clapped at, and every rhyme / Praised and applauded by a clamorous chime.
This Innovation? Is't not a fine Jigg? / A precious cunning in the late Protector / To shuffle a new Prince into the State.
The guests were jigging around on the dance floor.
the candle-flame stretched itself tall, and began jigging up and down.
[…]and the fin would jig off slowly, as if it were looking for nothing at all.
No, my complete master, but to jig off a tune at the tongue’s end, canary to it with your feet, humor it with turning up your eyelids,
Make thy moan to ballad singers and rhymers ; they'll jig out thy wretchedness and abominations to new tunes
“You got a new jig, huh?” The boy looked out at Jones through his swirls of oiled hair. “What happened to the last one? He die or something?”
This type of pickpocket, it should be noted, is passing from the scene; most class cannons now operating are old-timers. “The only youngsters I see breaking in on the whiz are jigs, and they are coining a bebop lingo that is something. […]
“…Lucky for me he wasn’t a jig, otherwise I couldn’t have done it.” “Jig?” “Nigger. Afro American.” His voice was heavy with sarcasm.
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