jack-in-the-box

How To Use jack-in-the-box In A Sentence

• The prototype antenna popped from its carrier like a jack-in-the-box, and its three 92-foot accordion struts inflated as planned.
• Visually these pictures have weight, with their brushy renderings of peasants, soldiers, flower gardens or heads popping up like jack-in-the-boxes.
• The man had come upon him like the eruption of a jack-in-the-box. The Benefit of the Doubt
• She knew the huge, twenty-foot, spring snake coiled inside the camera and ready to leap out like a jack-in-the-box when Dick squeezed the bulb. CHAPTER XXIX
• Thomas Mugridge popped out of his galley like a jack-in-the-box. Chapter 3
• The crank clicked as Fancy turned it, like a jack-in-the-box, only instead of hearing music, they saw the image of the happy place on the screen projected onto the four walls, and then the ceiling and the floor. Slice Of Cherry
• The researchers found that the children who knew how the old red jack-in-the-box worked that is, they had unambiguous or unconfounded information went to play with the new box. Ellen Galinsky: Give the Gift of Curiosity for the Holidays -- Lessons From Laura Schulz
• The crank shaft turns the piston's up and down motion into circular motion just like a crank on a jack-in-the-box does.
• The bead will pop into your vision like a jack-in-the-box. Shotgun Slug Accuracy Tips from the American Slug Shooting Association
• They are not piñatas or Christmas crackers - they are jack-in-the-boxes of death.