jitney

Example Sentences

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“When I was younger and couldn’t afford an actual vacation, I would bring my toddler on an adventure I called ‘the bus to the boat to the jitney to the beach,’ ” Coven said.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 18, 2023

This is the dramatic context for this jitney station, which is about to be boarded up by the city so that it can eventually be torn down.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2019

The jitney came and she didn’t have long to wait; the hotel was a new one, surprisingly close by.

From Slate • Mar. 26, 2018

By April the travelers finally reached Hungary, from which they could travel by jitney cabs and public transport links within the largely passport-free EU to Germany and France.

From US News • Jun. 26, 2015

The jitney takes about twenty minutes to drop me off at Mr. Reilly’s work.

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson