How to Use jump cut in a Sentence

jump cut

noun
  • His jump cuts in the backfield looked summer fresh.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 29 Dec. 2025
  • The film’s most crucial plot point is withheld in the jump cut.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 12 May 2022
  • The idea of jump cuts [which were omnipresent in Breathless]?
    — Scott Feinberg, HollywoodReporter, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Johnson thrives on an impressive jump cut.
    — Alec Lewis, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Raskin had the editor use fast cuts and jump cuts to fit pieces together.
    — Marc Freeman, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Jan. 2018
  • Why not a series of jump cuts of the phone slamming, for example?
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 16 Sep. 2024
  • What could have inspired early film editors to use these jump cuts?
    — Daniel Glaser, A-LIST, 1 July 2018
  • Kwabena literally throws up into his hands, and then there’s a jump cut.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 10 Feb. 2026
  • During the glitchy opening, the sound of static plays over frenzied jump cuts.
    — Caitlin Kelley, Billboard, 25 Oct. 2017
  • Rayshawn Jenkins look silly with a jump cut that led to an 18-yard gain.
    — Mark Long, Hartford Courant, 23 Oct. 2022
  • Fourteen frames in a two-hour film may not sound like much, but removing fourteen jump cuts?
    — Chris Yogerst, HollywoodReporter, 6 May 2026
  • Add sometimes amaze 'em football, too, given his dazzling jump cuts.
    — Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 7 Mar. 2018
  • The Fifth sprawls across three parts and five movements, with numerous jump cuts and sharp turns along the way.
    — Matthew Guerrieri, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2020
  • Nolan even employs a brief jump cut here, to add to the scene’s elliptical quality.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2024
  • His mix of patience and power, plus his patented jump cut, is driving one of the best stretches of his career.
    — Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Not only are there few jump cuts, but the camera work is also intentionally slow.
    — Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 7 June 2018
  • The scene is subtly jarring, as jump cuts and close-ups haven't been crucial to the movie's visual grammar up until this point.
    — Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Still, with its jump cuts and whip-pans, the original is decidedly a work of cinema.
    — Christopher Wallenberg, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2018
  • Vignette shots, fade-outs, jump cuts, reverse shots — all began as ideas to try out and, if effective, to keep in mind for the next movie.
    — Longreads, 15 May 2018
  • Carr used a superb jump cut to slide past a defender and gallop 52 yards for his second touchdown.
    — Zach Helfand, latimes.com, 2 Sep. 2017
  • So there is less need for all those annoying rapid jump cuts that detracted so much from the choreography in the first season.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 10 Sep. 2018
  • After a jump cut in the footage, emergency first responders arrive and take the unconscious girl away.
    — Somayeh Malekian, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Deshaun Fenwick made a nice jump cut for a good gainer during 11-on-11.
    — oregonlive, 19 Aug. 2021
  • On social media, make jokes that don’t follow logic or build toward a punch line, but rather rely on jump cuts and endless captions.
    — Emily Menez, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The Patriots quarterback forced the first challenger to the ground with a nasty jump cut that left the linebacker flailing.
    — Varun Shankar, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Haskins took a handoff out of the pistol formation and made a slight jump cut behind the line of scrimmage before plunging into a sea of bodies.
    — Michael Cohen, Detroit Free Press, 24 Oct. 2021
  • Following that was an abrupt jump cut to a clip of Hurricane Chris on the news apologizing to Fif.
    — Regina Cho, VIBE.com, 6 Sep. 2024
  • McKissic had two big gains in the third quarter, including one shifty jump cut to get by Tahir Whitehead for an 11-yard run.
    — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 4 Nov. 2019
  • His jump cuts are unbelievable, but that’s only part of what makes Philadelphia’s running game special.
    — Mike Preston, Orlando Sentinel, 30 Jan. 2025
  • The series delves into Lynchian surrealism and opts for unsettling anguish over jump cuts.
    — Andrew R. Chow, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2018

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