Example Sentences

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Because cabdrivers refused to go there, residents relied for decades on private jitneys to get around — cars that followed set routes through the community.

From Washington Post • Dec. 9, 2021

Those agents, who drive pickup trucks, are different than the parking enforcement agents that ticket vehicles for meter violations and other offenses, who drive small vehicles sometimes called jitneys.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2018

Simultaneously serving as their kids’ drill masters, coaches, instructors, one-on-one opponents, hype men, financiers, advisers, protectors, bouncers, dietitians, jitneys, critics, vision boards, sponsors, and parents.

From Slate • May 5, 2017

In other countries, mini-buses that occupy a gray world between public and private transportation go by many names: jitneys, matatus, "informal" transit.

From Washington Post • Feb. 25, 2015

Bernard Coyle ran two of the three Eastshore jitneys and personally conducted the least ancient of his two cars.

From Rosemary by Lawrence, Josephine