How to Use jack-of-all-trades in a Sentence

jack-of-all-trades

noun

• Ausar is a jack-of-all-trades, and the Pistons are high on his long-term potential.
  — Detroit Free Press, 23 June 2023
• The original jack-of-all-trades must have been a caregiver.
  — Fountain House, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
• Since then, their son, the pitmaster Greg Gatlin, has become a barbecue jack-of-all-trades.
  — Kayla Stewart, Bon Appétit, 23 Feb. 2024
• If there were a jack-of-all-trades mineral, many researchers would give the honor to magnesium.
  — Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Scientific American, 16 Feb. 2024
• Because McKeon is a valuable, jack-of-all-trades player.
  — David Moore, Dallas News, 28 Aug. 2023
• The jack-of-all-trades will add to his versatility this fall, returning kicks.
  — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Aug. 2023
• Peter Tailer was a jack-of-all-trades buzzing with creativity, his daughter said.
  — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 8 June 2023
• Generally used as a step between cleanser and moisturizer, the best toners are jacks-of-all-trades.
  — Dana Leigh Smith, Glamour, 13 Oct. 2023
• Richie even passes the power of the suit on to sweet jack-of-all-trades Fak (played by Canadian chef Matty Matheson), who presumably borrows a retro look from his dad.
  — Fawnia Soo Hoo, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Dec. 2023
• That lack of experience has especially hurt the writers who go on to become showrunners, or the jack-of-all-trades who manage the creative aspects of a show.
  — Emma Roth, The Verge, 14 July 2023
• One of the homes slated for demolition belongs to Mohamed Amin, 56, a former construction worker turned jack-of-all-trades at Darb.
  — Vivian Yee, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2023
• Castor oil has long been considered a jack-of-all-trades home remedy, used as a laxative, a moisturizer and as a chest rub to ease lung congestion.
  — Katie Camero, NBC News, 5 Aug. 2023
• These jack-of-all-trades bottoms boast UPF 50 sun protection, a water-resistant coating, and five convenient pockets with zippers and snaps.
  — Alice Bennett, Travel + Leisure, 24 Mar. 2024
• That profession might more readily conjure associations with Mary Poppins, but these guys are no jaunty jacks-of-all-trades.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Feb. 2024
• Her grandfather — jack-of-all-trades, house-builder, hog-slaughterer — had been best friends with James’ dad; the pair had occasionally done business together, trading horses.
  — Eric Boodman, STAT, 18 Apr. 2023
• Adam Blackstone, a jack-of-all-trades who plays bass, drums, piano, organ, tuba and sousaphone — and is also a songwriter, producer, composer and everything else under the musical sun — is more than ready to step in.
  — Mesfin Fekadu, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Aug. 2023
• Rebecca Miller salvaged the modest furnishings from the studio, including a daybed, a pot-belly wood stove and an old metal office chair that her father, a jack-of-all-trades, insisted on fixing rather than replacing.
  — Susan Haigh, Fortune, 3 July 2023
• Robinson's skill set could also enable him to occasionally be utilized in a similar fashion as Deebo Samuel, who has been primarily a receiver in San Francisco, but also is a bit of a jack-of-all-trades that contributes to the running game.
  — Josh Criswell, Chron, 1 Mar. 2023
• Instead, Raspe’s jack-of-all-trades résumé included stints as a writer, researcher, translator, journalist, librarian, geologist and custodian of coins—a position where access to wealth proved too tempting for him.
  — Rosemary Counter, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024