How to Use jackrabbit in a Sentence

jackrabbit

noun

• The dry yellow grass of the plains grows high as a jackrabbit, enough to hide two sleeping kids.
  — Longreads, 3 Aug. 2017
• Locals says the base knows every desert tortoise and jackrabbit that hops the fence.
  — Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, 23 Mar. 2023
• Now, a new study shows how: by borrowing a gene from a jackrabbit, one of their long-eared cousins.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 21 June 2018
• My head snapped up quicker than a jackrabbit on moonshine.
  — Clarkisha Kent, The Root, 11 Mar. 2018
• The preferred diet of jackrabbits is grass, but that can be hard to find, especially in the hottest desert months.
  — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Oct. 2023
• Rabbits were also quite common, with the black-tailed jackrabbit taking the top spot in three South Bay cities.
  — Susie Neilson, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Jan. 2023
• Not long ago, Forney was a sleepy rural town known for an 8-foot-tall jackrabbit statue.
  — Dallas News, 5 Oct. 2022
• Oregon caught exactly one jackrabbit in the first half.
  — Ken Goe, OregonLive.com, 14 Oct. 2017
• Best not to overthink the simple pleasures here—among them dead-perfect needle drops and a jackrabbit pace.
  — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 13 Sep. 2023
• Some drivers like to do those jackrabbit starts, pushing the pedal to the metal and skyrocketing down the street.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 28 May 2021
• In 2015, the jackrabbit Jackson finished fifth, made her world championship pro debut and was the first U.S. woman to cross the finish.
  — Brian T. Dessart, SI.com, 16 Oct. 2017
• The surprisingly large black-tailed jackrabbit is always a crowd-pleaser, as is the diminutive gray fox.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2022
• The reason: the coming collapse of the high-flying apartment sector that has fueled its jackrabbit growth.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 10 Nov. 2021
• That's what happens when the jackrabbit sprint of youthful tech companies inevitably slows.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 17 June 2017
• There’s not much between those cities except the dusty prairies and grasslands of the Great Plains, where the buffalo used to roam and where still the deer and the antelope play alongside prairie dogs, jackrabbits, and even rattlesnakes.
  — Mary Ann Anderson, Twin Cities, 20 July 2019
• On those early morning runs, the desert air is crisp and the trails are quiet and empty, save for the occasional jackrabbit darting between shrubs.
  — Molly Mirhashem, Outside Online, 6 Oct. 2016
• There were sudden inundations of green worms, then starving jackrabbits that swarmed out of the hills, darting eerily about.
  — Kevin Baker, Harper's magazine, 10 May 2019
• Likewise, when there is a jackrabbit among other cars, there is likely a road rage that can emerge as other drivers try to cut off that Indy car or catch up and try to tell them off.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 28 May 2021
• That includes protagonists like Thornton and events like the clubbing of jackrabbits that arrived en masse.
  — Manuel Mendoza, Dallas News, 21 Feb. 2020
• One of the featured creatures is of the fantasy kind — a wolperdinger, Bavaria’s canine-fanged version of the Texas jackalope, a cross between a jackrabbit and an antelope.
  — John Goodspeed, San Antonio Express-News, 14 June 2018
• Some tours include lunch or dinner; all include sightings of jackrabbits and the occasional Joshua trees.
  — Matt Villano, Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
• The dining room — spare and neutral in color, save for a wild mural depicting geometric symbols and a large jackrabbit — wasn’t quite full.
  — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2024
• Even the world-weary Marjorie, whom Cooper plays with muted energy, is an unlikely and horny jackrabbit.
  — Naveen Kumar, Variety, 24 July 2023
• But the harsh environment is not kind to wood, as Mr. McAdam pointed out, and many jackrabbit homesteads have disintegrated.
  — New York Times, 1 Oct. 2019
• Other than a passing stink bug, black tailed jackrabbit and a few buzzing hummingbirds feeding on the bright red chuparosa blossoms, there had not been much activity.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Mar. 2022
• Later that month, the state’s first cases in wild rabbits were detected in a black-tailed jackrabbit in Lubbock County and cottontail in Hudspeth County.
  — Matt Wyatt, ExpressNews.com, 10 Dec. 2020
• The jackrabbit leaps that will continue well into 2023 will lift the the cost of groceries, rents, air fares, gasoline and most of the staples on families' shopping lists to a plateau high above pre-pandemic levels, in sudden shocks.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2022
• EVs deliver lots more rotational power—torque—to the wheels; that’s why EVs take off like a jackrabbit when your foot touches the accelerator.
  — Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2021
• Eastern and northern coyotes can approach 60 pounds, while those from the southwest generally weigh half as much, even after a jackrabbit buffet.
  — Richard Mann, Field & Stream, 17 Sep. 2019
• As for the pincushion plant, some indifferent animal (probably a jackrabbit) likes to bite off the entire flowering heads—spikes and all.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 4 Mar. 2016

Last Updated: 26 Nov 2024