Sentence examples for had been jacked from inspiring English sources

Several customized cars had been jacked up on hydraulic lifts.

Investors were disappointed that the emergency meeting had not led to tougher action: at each of the previous two meetings, rates had been jacked up by at least 20 percentage points.

About a pair of bespoke blue jeans worn by Skip Spence, one of the founders of Moby Grape, whom Mr. Gibson met in California in the early 1970s, he sees how they had been "jacked out of blue denim mundania entirely, into some unknown realm of Hispano-American, deeply Catholic romanticism".

It immediately turned ugly as the security woman tried to cut off a lawyer from St Louis complaining how premiums on her small business health insurance policy had been jacked up 41%.

After the car has been jacked up, place jack stands under framed portions of the car.

"I've been arguing for a long time that the blues has been jacked.

The inter-host bromance has been jacked up to obscene levels, for starters.

And while the yard has been known for low rents, "now they've been jacked up," she said.

He points up that the latter's trade is already declining "thanks to soaring oil prices that have been jacked up by a handful of banks".

The entire 48-storey pile has been jacked up a whopping 30 metres into the air, improbably supported by zig-zagging steel legs that stride around the perimeter.

If you can find it (few copies were printed), afford it (they're expensive, and the price has been jacked up on secondary markets), lift it (it weighs more than thirteen pounds, and nearly crushed my son's foot when he dropped it), and banish the tunes from your head, you'll see what Ricks sees. 5. "The Pedestrians," by Rachel Zucker.