Definition: 1. A vessel (usually cylindrical) with a wide mouth and without handles. 2. The quantity contained in a jar. 3. A sudden impact. 4. Be incompatible; be or come into conflict. 5. Move or cause to move with a sudden jerky motion. 6. Shock physically.
Use 'jar' in a sentence:
1. I can't get the lid off this jar.
2. She'd actually taken it home and she put it in this jar thing.
3. There was a jarring note of triumph in his voice.
4. This would permit air to enter, breaking the hermetic seal of the jar.
5. A turtle in a jar is certainly caught within the reach.
6. Now lay the jar on its side.
7. Sometimes a light remark jarred on her father.
8. When they got there, they found the jar, but it was empty.
9. Until the 1980s almost all olives were packed into jars by hand.
10. Our short-lives connexion with existence we fondly flatter ourselves, is an indissoluble and lasting union—a honeymoon that knows neither coldness, jar, nor separation.
11. Instead of throwing away a wrapper after you indulge in something sweet, keep it in a jar.
12. The jar may be empty or tenanted by spiders, full of honey or stinking slime—it makes no difference to its beauty or ugliness.
13. The information says she'll need just a jar for water—and some pencils for drawing.
14. The professor invited the students to count how many beans the jar contained.
15. Under a wide shelf that holds coffee jars stands a pile of magazines.
16. Alex was wondering why the fish in the jar refused his bread and butter.
17. I made do with some peanut butter, scooped directly from the jar with a forefinger: why dirty a spoon?
18. Pack the fruits and nuts into the jars and cover with brandy.
19. A little salmon in a jar cooked next to last night's dirty dishes doesn't sound all that appetizing.
20. In the Middle Ages, before modern banking and credit instruments, people saved money at home, a few coins at a time dropped into a jar or dish.
21. If you go through your white flour in less than a year, you can safely keep it on the counter in an airtight jar or canister.
22. Place them in a jam jar, porcelain bowl, or other similar container.
23. "I try and keep it in a time capsule in a canning jar," Loe said.
24. This cover belongs to that jar.
25. I can't unscrew the lid of this jar.
26. You shouldn't have too many colours in a small space as the effect can jar.
27. She opened up a jar of plums.
28. What matter was it that on the outside of the jar, the eye of mere observation noted the words "Keelwell's Marmalade".
29. I keep the flour and sugar in individual jars, sealed tight with their glass lids.
30. We fill this jar with useful things, like money.
31. Someone has selfishly emptied the biscuit jar.
32. She dipped a hand into the jar of candies and pulled one out.
33. This device has a gripper that electrically twists off the jar top. Nothing to it.
34. Do you fancy a jar after work?
35. There's a hairline crack in the rim of that jar.
36. Her brown shoes jarred with the rest of the outfit.
37. The jolt seemed to jar every bone in her body.
38. She dipped a hand into the jar of sweets and pulled one out.
39. I screwed up the jar and put it back on the shelf.
40. The ship jarred a little.
41. The spade jarred on something metal.
42. Rain falls through the funnel into the jar below.
43. This gadget's great for opening jars.
44. Machines now exist to pack olives in jars.
45. The fall gave him a nasty jar.
46. She opened up a glass jar of plums.
47. Small insects can be collected by shaking them into a jar.
48. She screwed the cap back on the jar.
49. Jars of all shapes and sizes were arrayed on the shelves.
50. This jar will hold a kilo.
51. His constant moaning was beginning to jar on her nerves.
