How to Use jump seat in a Sentence

jump seat

noun
  • The Ecto-1 is revealed to have a pop-out jump seat ideal for hunting ghosts on the fly.
    Annie White, Car and Driver, 28 July 2021
  • The officers placed him in restraints and moved him to a jump seat at the front of the plane, the affidavit said.
    Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Friends and stuff: The rear jump seats are cruel and unusual.
    Scott Sturgis, Philly.com, 12 Mar. 2018
  • The attendant then returned to her jump seat as the plane landed.
    Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Sep. 2021
  • The flight attendant then returned to her jump seat as the plane landed.
    David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Dec. 2021
  • One guide sits on a jump seat that is unfolded far out in front of the vehicle and very high above it.
    Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 10 Sep. 2022
  • The 1500 Rev will not be equipped with the removable jump seats from the concept, which could have turned the Ram pickup into the first third-row truck.
    Kristin Shaw, Popular Science, 6 Mar. 2023
  • When the attendant returned to her jump seat, Quinonez started to film her with her cell phone, the complaint said.
    Kathryn Krupnik, CBS News, 4 Sep. 2021
  • And in the grand tradition of station wagons, there's even a set of rear-facing jump seats that fold out of the cargo floor.
    Joey Capparella, Car and Driver, 27 Apr. 2020
  • On the drive, the emir would stop to hand commanders fistfuls of cash from the shopping bag under Padnos’ jump seat.
    Karl Vick, Time, 25 Feb. 2021
  • The two young pilots of his twin-rotor transport had invited him to sit in the cockpit's third jump seat.
    Elliot Ackerman, Wired, 23 Feb. 2021
  • The pilot who had flubbed the landing turned toward Lin Bao in the jump seat and sheepishly apologized.
    Elliot Ackerman, Wired, 23 Feb. 2021
  • The front jump seat can even be removed by request, freeing up space for whatever else cops might want to put there.
    Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 2 Apr. 2022
  • When the jump seat is not in use, the seatback folds down to provide a front armrest and oddment stowage and a pair of additional cup-holders.
    Nargess Banks, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
  • And the big Rover, which can seat nine people if the rear jump seats are folded down, cruises down the Interstate at 75-80 mph quite happily.
    Arthur St. Antoine, Car and Driver, 24 Mar. 2020
  • Sport hunters there can legally rent a helicopter jump seat and shoot fleeing hogs with AR-15-style rifles.
    Alex Horton, Twin Cities, 8 Aug. 2019
  • There is an extra front row center seat — the jump seat — which is a brilliant new feature conceived for the Defender 110, the model loaned to me.
    Nargess Banks, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
  • The issue stems from the fact that passengers in row 14 had to be moved after the incident and some were moved to the jump seat, not leaving enough seats for the flight attendants on the packed flight.
    Dawn Gilbertson, USA TODAY, 19 Nov. 2019
  • Emmeline sat up front with the pilot (who kept checking his Instagram), Liza and I sat in the two middle seats, and my husband was in a kind of jump seat in the back.
    Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 10 Sep. 2022
  • The extra interior room goes to adjustable-backrest buckets and a pair of jump seats.
    Don Sherman, Car and Driver, 25 Feb. 2023
  • Additional seating has also been added to the class five crew cab providing four seats across the back, a jump seat and driver seat to bring total seat to six.
    Ed Garsten, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Among these are Delta and American Airlines, which have capped the number of fliers per flight and blocked out middle seats and those located near jump seats from being booked.
    Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 5 May 2020
  • The suspect, William Morgan, allegedly got out of his seat 20 minutes before the plane touched the ground and approached the flight attendant in her jump seat in the back, according to the complaint.
    Alexis Jones, Peoplemag, 27 July 2023
  • If five seats are too few and seven too many, Land Rover allows you to split the difference with an optional front jump seat in two-row Defenders.
    Dave Vanderwerp, Car and Driver, 24 Mar. 2020
  • On that trip, pilot Joseph David Emerson, who was sitting in a cockpit jump seat, reached for handles that would shut off the engines’ fuel, according to court records.
    Alyssa Lukpat, WSJ, 3 Nov. 2023
  • When the flight attendant returned to her jump seat, Quinonez allegedly started to film the Southwest employee.
    Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2021
  • In some models, the center console can be flipped back to create a jump seat between the driver and passenger, similar to a three-across bench in some full-size pickup trucks.
    Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Just 32 seconds after the inadvertent activation of that switch, the plane slammed into the ground, killing the captain, the first officer and a third pilot who was hitching a ride in the jump seat.
    Dominic Gates, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Oct. 2021
  • One of the passengers was sitting in the cockpit's jump seat and repeatedly insisted that the pilots attempt a landing.
    Peter Greenberg, Town & Country, 7 Feb. 2014
  • The pilot’s indictment came just a few days before an off-duty Alaska Airlines pilot riding in the cockpit jump seat tried to shut down the engines of a Horizon Air jet in midflight.
    David Koenig, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2023

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