Jeeves is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Jeeves in a sentence
Jeeves meaning
- A surname originating as a matronymic.
- A fictional valet in the stories by P. G. Wodehouse.
- A valet, butler or helper who fulfills the model of a helpful servant.
Using Jeeves
- The main meaning on this page is: A surname originating as a matronymic. | A fictional valet in the stories by P. G. Wodehouse. | A valet, butler or helper who fulfills the model of a helpful servant.
- In the example corpus, jeeves often appears in combinations such as: ask jeeves.
Context around Jeeves
- Average sentence length in these examples: 19.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 1 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 10 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Jeeves
- In this selection, "jeeves" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 19.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, ask, claimed, structure, group, novel and 1934 stand out and add context to how "jeeves" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include about valet jeeves in 1917 and and ask jeeves. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "jeeves" sits close to words such as aadi, aayush and abbottabad, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with jeeves
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Jeeves isn't the only farmer having trouble. (8 words)
I thought you meant you’d been using Ask Jeeves. (10 words)
Jeeves, who calls himself Clean Freakz, loves to share his top cleaning hacks. (13 words)
As a millennial, I grew up with the internet, but the digital world of my childhood was slow and unsophisticated, with dial-up modems and competing search engines such as AltaVista and Ask Jeeves. (34 words)
Jeeves, his father and their companies were only named among the approximately 75 defendants because the man at the centre of the scandal claimed Jeeves Group owned the structure, Jeeves said. (31 words)
She escaped the wrath of the critical community in London when her role of Aunt Dahlia was removed from Andrew Lloyd Webber 's flop musical Jeeves (1975) before opening night. (30 words)
Example sentences (10)
Jeeves, his father and their companies were only named among the approximately 75 defendants because the man at the centre of the scandal claimed Jeeves Group owned the structure, Jeeves said.
The first Jeeves novel, Thank You, Jeeves (1934), features a minstrel show as a significant plot point.
As a millennial, I grew up with the internet, but the digital world of my childhood was slow and unsophisticated, with dial-up modems and competing search engines such as AltaVista and Ask Jeeves.
Jeeves, who calls himself Clean Freakz, loves to share his top cleaning hacks.
I thought you meant you’d been using Ask Jeeves.
Jeeves isn't the only farmer having trouble.
The company vanquished rivals like Excite, Yahoo and Ask Jeeves and built one of the world’s most profitable businesses.
Jeeves failed to make any impact at the box office and closed after a short run of only three weeks.
P. G. Wodehouse published his first collection of comical stories about valet Jeeves in 1917.
She escaped the wrath of the critical community in London when her role of Aunt Dahlia was removed from Andrew Lloyd Webber 's flop musical Jeeves (1975) before opening night.
Common combinations with jeeves
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: