How to Use jackass in a Sentence

jackass

noun

• Some jackass spilled his drink on my shoes.
• Go out there, have a good time, but don't be a jackass.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 10 Mar. 2022
• The call of the jackass penguin might seem like a far cry from human speech.
  — Kate Baggaley, Popular Science, 7 Feb. 2020
• So the four menu items with C’s in the descriptions were cat, dog, crab, and jackass.
  — Todd Etter, WIRED, 30 June 2010
• A jackass is a donkey, and the sauce was branded as such, according to Eater.
  — Sarah Rense, Esquire, 28 June 2017
• Look at how the Feds are trying to blame our flag for this one jackass shooting everybody.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 22 Feb. 2018
• In less than 15 years, then, the jackasses have developed a spacecraft that has become something of a jack-of-all-trades.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 7 Apr. 2020
• No more squeezing your tuxedo into the confines of a wetsuit and then waddling around like a jackass with a bird on your head.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 17 Sep. 2021
• Being mentally ill is not an excuse to act like a jackass.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 14 Oct. 2018
• The story is about a jackass who grows a bare sliver of a heart, a template that Marvel would beat into the ground in the years to come but that was not yet established in 2008.
  — Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 26 Oct. 2017
• For some people, the signature role of Murphy's career is that of a talking jackass.
  — Elliott Smith, EW.com, 10 Jan. 2023
• The teams to draw them were an equal number of jackasses and emaciated horses that had seen better days.
  — John MacCormack, San Antonio Express-News, 20 Jan. 2018
• A month later, Mother Nature took pains to make DeSantis look like a jackass.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2022
• The jackass in question was Raymond, the wild horse herd’s only mule who is notorious for his antics.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 17 Sep. 2019
• But maybe, just maybe, these jackasses have other business.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 13 June 2019
• Some jackasses were even snapping branches off trees and building fires.
  — Jeffrey Lee Puckett, The Courier-Journal, 18 Jan. 2018
• If killing his own brother and threatening his niece and nephew wasn't an indicator enough, Euron is a jackass.
  — Rawan Eewshah, Allure, 24 July 2017
• The playful creatures are also known as jackass penguins because their call is similar to the braying of a donkey.
  — Jan Hefler, Philly.com, 16 May 2018
• Liam Gallagher lived his twenties and thirties as rock’s maximum jackass, greeting the world middle fingers first as the front man of the 1990s-defining band Oasis.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 11 Sep. 2019
• Emerson quotes aside, this guy is an arrogant jackass presenting himself as a monarch to a group of people who have no reason to pledge their fealty.
  — Sarene Leeds, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2021
• His deputy Officer Dixon played by Sam Rockwell is an immature jackass and racist bully who lives with his mother.
  — Michael Heaton, cleveland.com, 4 Mar. 2018
• Politics is stubborn, like an angry jackass with shampoo on its head.
  — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 9 Mar. 2018
• Good riddance to a jackass whose death will undoubtedly play a part in creating more obstacles for the Hawkins heroes in Season 5.
  — Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 5 July 2022
• In building a case for his argument, jackass annoys his friend and — depending on whether you’re intrigued by these sorts of thought experiments — maybe the reader as well.
  — Chris Barton, Twin Cities, 20 July 2019
• The songs' sounds are similar to the bray of a donkey, according to the paper which published Tuesday, and are responsible for the flightless birds' less-than-flattering nickname: the jackass penguin.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 5 Feb. 2020
• Head jackass Johnny Knoxville is in prosthetics as his old-man character Irving Zisman.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 12 Feb. 2022
• Idol would be nothing without encouraging at least a few contestants to make absolute jackasses of themselves in front of the cameras.
  — Robbie Daw, Billboard, 12 Mar. 2018
• Only a complete jackass would just spring them on an unsuspecting audience.
  — The Washington Post, 23 June 2020
• In its most positive connotation, the word jackass refers to someone who pushes the boundaries of human physical capabilities for the sake of having a good time.
  — Maren Larsen, Outside Online, 27 Apr. 2021
• The spirit of the jackass was perhaps best typified by the eponymous 2000 MTV reality show, whose cast consisted of nine young men doing outrageous stunts—like attempting to skateboard down a ramp of six treadmills—and pulling pranks on each other.
  — Maren Larsen, Outside Online, 27 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024