Sentence examples for jitney from inspiring English sources
noun
A small bus or minibus which typically operates service on a fixed route, sometimes scheduled.
Descend to the Nile valley and be jolted by rutted roads lined with rubbish and packed with crowded jitney cabs, ferrying the working poor from their cramped and airless dwellings to insecure jobs and run-down schools.
"Jitney" never made it to Broadway, though all but one of the other nine did and, years later, it was a sell-out at the National Theatre in London.
Woodbury Common — a squeaky-clean faux-Colonial village in upstate New York which looks like the set of a David Lynch movie — may not be much admired by Manhattanites who haunt Madison Avenue shops, but the place has cast a spell on modish foreigners, who make the line at Gate 310 of the Port Authority bus terminal look like the queue for the Hamptons jitney.
One visitor to the East End recently rode in on a jitney behind an emotional-support dog, who had his own seat, which he chose to recline against her knees.
The jitney that travels between the Atlantic City hotels is run-down and slow, a horrible way to travel.
You don't have to hop on the jitney to get a decent lobster roll (though if you do, Amagansett's Lunch is the place to go), and the ominous-sounding "market price" is getting slightly less so with every warm day.
Still, he allows himself certain luxuries, and one of them is to hire a car rather than sit in a jitney.
In order to meet Falafel, the highest ranked backgammon player in the world, I took a Greyhound bus to Atlantic City, and then hopped a jitney to the Borgata Hotel.
GEORGE PLIMPTON, who died in 2003, once joked that he had written a book and a half aboard the Hampton Jitney, the privately owned bus service that chauffeurs Hamptonites who do not have their own town cars or helicopters to their weekend escapes.
Professor Low is even seeing clashes bubble up on — gasp! — the Hampton Jitney, the bus between Manhattan and the Hamptons, those beach towns on the eastern end of Long Island.
Which makes it a great summer-reading choice for you and your eighty-something mother, in an otherwise cool summer when it's hard to work up a sweat on the Hampton Jitney.
