How to Use jalopy in a Sentence

jalopy

noun
  • They were shocked when the jalopy sitting in the barn actually started.
  • So, what exactly is causing the moon to rust like an old jalopy sitting in a junkyard?
    — Jennifer Nalewicki, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Sep. 2020
  • Ringo Starr’s Jeep is parked next to Tommy Lee’s black jalopy.
    — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Fans have dissected the teaser trailer where the core four are at the lake, riding in the jalopy, etc.
    — Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 10 Oct. 2018
  • Two doors down, someone is adding to their sizable collection of jalopies.
    — Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Apr. 2026
  • This is a busted jalopy that runs on yesteryear’s resentments.
    — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Picture Dmitriev going off on a dig in his threadbare jalopy (a Niva).
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 11 Oct. 2017
  • The rhythms have a spiky, loping quality, evoking a jalopy puttering up a hill then racing down the other side again and again.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 7 July 2017
  • But the regime’s bigger problem is that investors who kick the tires on the Castro jalopy increasingly walk away.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 22 Apr. 2018
  • Reviving cheery Archie and its cozy world of malt shoppes and jalopies as a tale of unsolved homicide sounds like remaking the day as night.
    — Willa Paskin, Slate Magazine, 26 Jan. 2017
  • How can cinema, a rickety old jalopy that started its motor in the early twentieth century, hope to keep pace with that?
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Kids in jalopies cruised at night, listening to Mexican pirate radio.
    — Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Instead, our personal garages are stuffed mostly with lawn-care equipment and assorted jalopies of lesser prestige.
    — Car and Driver, 26 Sep. 2018
  • Visits by this jalopy to a grandmother carry memories of a seashore where the barbed wire and antitank blocks are just being cleared away, and where rock pools shine to his boy’s eye with secret, depthless life.
    — Colin Thubron, The New York Review of Books, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Break away from the humdrum of daily reality by steering the jalopy to Darryl’s Corner Bar & Kitchen.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Although general manager Ryan Pace described it as a jalopy, the car looked more than serviceable in pictures published by the Bears.
    — Rich Campbell, chicagotribune.com, 12 May 2017
  • Creech, a huge cephalopod, subsists on oil, and takes up residence in Tripp’s decrepit jalopy, sometimes impertinently seizing control.
    — Andy Webster, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2017
  • This is an organization that paints an old jalopy in opposing team’s colors, parks it in front of the arena, and then asks fans for a $5 charitable contribution to swing at it with a sledgehammer.
    — Kevin Allen, USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2018
  • As his escort disappeared over the horizon, trailed by a line of German jalopies, gone, too, was the necessity of a special detail in the army post office to handle incoming mail for the rock ‘n roll idol.
    — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Hundreds of classic cars, hot rods, jalopies, motorcycles and some vehicles that defy description make a 140-mile drive from Seligman to Kingman and finally to Oatman and Topock.
    — Roger Naylor, azcentral, 27 Dec. 2019

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