jackknife

How To Use jackknife In A Sentence

• The shorter girl snarled her frustration and lunged after him with her jackknife, tearing a horizontal gash in his right pant leg.
• The snow came down in handfuls and cars jackknifed to the left and right of us as we drove east on unplowed streets.
• Michael thrashed his legs and jackknifed his body, just like the hooded man had done, but Angel and Jordan were too strong. The Omega Theory
• With a jackknife, he whittled a point on a thin green stick pulled from a maple branch.
• A double-semi had jackknifed, neatly shutting down four lanes.
• I ducked down in onto my hands and knees, and right before my eyes, I saw the jackknife that Todd was carrying discarded on the ground, it was tremendously shiny, and glittered in the company of a red handle.
• The snow came down in handfuls and cars jackknifed to the left and right of us as we drove east on unplowed streets.
• I dreamed last night that a large tractor trailer truck carrying a huge load of bricks jackknifed on a main street in my town.
• And in Montgomery County, a jackknifed tractor trailer led to delays on the Inner Loop lanes of the Beltway just north of Bradley Road, but officials said the scene had been cleared. Rain amends some school schedules
• Mr William tried to slow down by pumping his brakes but the vehicle jackknifed in the road while trying to avoid Mr Utting.