How do you use Jaywalking in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Jaywalking meaning
An act of behaving as a jaywalker.
Using Jaywalking
- The main meaning on this page is: An act of behaving as a jaywalker.
- In the example corpus, jaywalking often appears in combinations such as: for jaywalking, jaywalking to, jaywalking across.
Context around Jaywalking
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 9 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Jaywalking
- In this selection, "jaywalking" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 20.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, new, prevent, decriminalize, across, now and law stand out and add context to how "jaywalking" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 60s were jaywalking across finch and beaten for jaywalking schlossberg should. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "jaywalking" sits close to words such as abattoirs, abike and ablative, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with jaywalking
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Jaywalking is a joke of a crime. (7 words)
Jaywalking is reportedly an invention of the automobile industry. (9 words)
Demand is rife to build a foot overbridge to prevent jaywalking. (11 words)
Danny Blain is overcome with emotion as he kneels Friday at a memorial for Kurt Andras Reinhold, 42, a homeless Black man who was shot by Orange County deputies last week after they stopped him for jaywalking. (37 words)
The law came about, in part, because of the disproportionate frequency of Black people being stopped for jaywalking compared to whites, and a belief that the stops often functioned as a form of pretextual stop. (35 words)
Chinese cities are pioneers in marshaling the potential of facial recognition and big data to police the behavior of their citizens, down to issuing automated fines for offenses like jaywalking. (30 words)
If white students can organize in a flash against jaywalking fines, why aren’t we showing up for Black liberation? (20 words)
Example sentences (20)
Jaywalking now legal in NYC under controversial new lawMichelle Charlesworth has the latest on new jaywalking law.
Demand is rife to build a foot overbridge to prevent jaywalking.
However, in Australia it isn't that simple, as the youngster revealed you can get hit with a £115 fine for jaywalking.
The Council also approved a bill to decriminalize jaywalking, which can carry a penalty of up to $300.
The law came about, in part, because of the disproportionate frequency of Black people being stopped for jaywalking compared to whites, and a belief that the stops often functioned as a form of pretextual stop.
Danny Blain is overcome with emotion as he kneels Friday at a memorial for Kurt Andras Reinhold, 42, a homeless Black man who was shot by Orange County deputies last week after they stopped him for jaywalking.
If white students can organize in a flash against jaywalking fines, why aren’t we showing up for Black liberation?
I vividly recall how police back then routinely issued tickets for things such as jaywalking to people who suffered from severe mental illness.
When it comes to misdemeanor reform, misdemeanors vary in severity from jaywalking to unpaid parking tickets and third-degree assault.
A few weeks later, two women in their 60s were jaywalking across Finch near Jane when they were hit by a white Buick sedan.
Because if they had anything else, anything — parking tickets, jaywalking, not tipping at least 15 percent — they would have gone with it instead.
Officer conducted a person stop on an adult female for jaywalking.
Queens native and Tandon sophomore Aadiba Haque also credits New Yorkers’ go-getter spirit as a reason for jaywalking.
Spoelstra, in comments relayed through Capt. Glen Brock, said he stopped Townsel and two others for jaywalking across Florida.
Chinese cities are pioneers in marshaling the potential of facial recognition and big data to police the behavior of their citizens, down to issuing automated fines for offenses like jaywalking.
If Black people can be arrested and beaten for jaywalking, Schlossberg should — at a minimum — have charges filed against him.
It seems no effective deterrent is any closer as many will perish in road-related accidents due to fatigue, speed, jaywalking, unroadworthy and overloaded vehicles.
Jaywalking is a joke of a crime.
Jaywalking is reportedly an invention of the automobile industry.
Photos showing two plain-clothes police officers warning people for jaywalking in Yuen Long, the New Territories, went viral on social media and instant messaging groups on Thursday.
Common combinations with jaywalking
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- for jaywalking 10×
- jaywalking to 2×
- jaywalking across 2×
- jaywalking is 2×
- jaywalking in 2×
- of jaywalking 2×
- jaywalking and 2×