jitney

How To Use jitney In A Sentence

• Let competing county buses and private jitneys ply bus stops for passengers.
• Minibuses and jitneys, often unlicensed and poorly maintained, are particularly dangerous.
• With parallel highways being paved, jitneys were inroading into profits.
• Jamal and I stand on the distressed street waiting for a jitney.
• The Hampton Jitney has an Ambassador Service, which is infinitely more comfortable than the regular jitney. Mara Gibbs: Everybody Eats Where? Everybody Sleeps Where? In the Hamptons Part 1
• Even before the automobile became ubiquitous, competition arose from other modes of transportation like the jitney, an automobile that carried passengers for a nickel along routes that ran parallel to the trolley line. Matthew Yglesias » The American Urban Paradox
• Depending on where you roam, your transportation may range from the ultramodern, like the high-speed trains of Japan, to the traditional, like the eccentric jitneys of the Philippines or the gondolas of Venice.
• Setting a boot on one of the dilapidated benches, Cameron glanced at the old jitney terminal behind the airport. MINUTES TO BURN
• Some city associations might also provide public transit such as street cars, without excluding private alternatives such as vans and jitneys.
• As he spoke a cab appeared, a grimy little robot jitney with the other Twin in the back.