Sentence examples for be a jumper from inspiring English sources

I thought he might be a jumper".

"We are going to respond no matter what because there could be a jumper at the spot," said Paul J. Browne, the department's chief spokesman.

Mrs. McMillin, who has been a widow for some years, has a daughter of sixteen, who is not going to be a jumper or aviatrix; her ambitions are fixed on the stage and she attends the Professional Children's School.

"When does a 9-year-old gelding who was supposed to be a jumper win a Grade I race at a one and a half miles?" said Douglas Joyce, one of the owners in Trillium Stable, which collected $300,000 for the first-place check, before answering his own question.

I was a jumper for years.

His first field goal was a jumper.

It's a jumper with flare.

"When did you ever see an animal who was a jumper and had turnout?" he asks.

Every fifth mine was a "jumper" — explosives that pop into the air to detonate at waist-level.

Holland was a jumper for the U.S. Ski Team and arrived in 1993 when the team located its training base in Park City.

Williams says it's a jumper, and "jumpers are very 'now,' as is lace".