jenny

Example Sentences

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While the spinning jenny was key to 18th century automation of the textiles industry, they found it led to longer working hours in harsher conditions.

From Reuters

“Scientific evidence for intelligence in donkeys could expose their historical unmerited cognitive derogatory status,” the report begins about the species — the male of which is called a jack and the female is a jenny.

From Washington Post

Creeping jenny or a trailing rosemary will extend down the side of a tall pot, providing an attractive asymmetrical note.

From Seattle Times

There is a direct line of descent from the Strasbourg clock to the spinning jenny.

From Literature

One, called “jenny’s trying,” is just one line: “why hide?”

From New York Times