Example Sentences
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After being told he’d jaywalked, Reinhold disagreed and walked into the street while continuing to resist Israel’s efforts to detain him, prosecutors said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2022
Agnes Ouyang was heading to work in Shenzhen last year when two police officers told her she had jaywalked and would need to show them her identity card.
From New York Times ● Dec. 17, 2019
When the man crossed the street, the officer then said, “Oh, you just jaywalked now, sir.”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 19, 2016
She kissed me on the lips and turned and jaywalked across the street to her beige and brown Pontiac.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 30, 2013
Kirby jaywalked across the street diagonally and passed in front of an electric headed south.
From Tangled Trails A Western Detective Story by Raine, William MacLeod