Sentence examples for have been jack from inspiring English sources
The super-selling American crimewriter Patricia Cornwell has revealed on US television that she believes the Victorian painter Walter Sickert to have been Jack the Ripper.
All sorts of thoughts ran through my head: "These people are related to a guy who some historians think could have been Jack the Ripper; didn't some queen lock away one of her kids and pretend that he never existed?
But in a scene of chaos that became a local scandal, a crowd of schoolboys and other onlookers ran amok among the coffins, seizing bones — including, it was thought, the skulls of Ned Kelly and Frederick Bailey Deeming, the notorious British serial killer who may have been Jack the Ripper.
It is set in 2059, in a parallel England taken over since 1901 by Scion, a republic dedicated to stamping out the clairvoyance that had become a threat to the empire ever since the reign of Edward VII – no, not that Edward VII, but his son Prince Eddie, who outlived his father rather than pre-deceasing him, and who was reputed to have been Jack the Ripper.
Martha Tabram, who may have been Jack's first victim, was stabbed to death on 7 August 1888 within sight of Toynbee Hall.
The notorious serial killer who stalked London's East End, butchering prostitutes and terrorising the population, may not have been Jack the Ripper - but Jill.
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".
According to one theory, the name derives from the nineteenth-century use of "jack" as slang for a runaway slave, and the original formulation may have been "jacks and whites," which was corrupted in the repetition.
Prices have been jacked up three times that of inflation, according to Boundless.
Under Obama, items as obscure as tires to things as important as steel have been jacked up with tariffs.
Countless iPhone features have been jacked from ideas and concepts perfected by third-party developers with nary a credit given.
