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How to use jalopy in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word jalopy? Here are some examples.

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In the winter we planned to migrate to San Francisco, bringing all our beat furniture and broken belongings with us in a jalopy panel truck.
Well, the Navy just took its first taxi, and it's taking us where we need to go much faster than its old jalopy.
I remember Dave telling me how surprised he was that George was driving an old jalopy that barely ran.
Always a good rule, but you may be tempted to just load up the old jalopy, even for an overnighter.
His cause, like a rusty old jalopy, is falling apart before he turned the key.
And timing could be a problem if it takes a long time to sell your old jalopy and you need the funds from its sale to buy the new one.
But when we do have to mosey on into town to stock up for the long, hard winter, we dress up in our Sunday best, slick down the hair and jump in the jalopy like the Clampetts.
And yet, not only has the McConnell machine failed to shift into higher gear, it has sputtered worse than a beat-up jalopy.
You control the machinery in there, and you can run like a Porsche or a jalopy.
He and three of his colleagues, calling themselves the Almanac Singers, were on a cross-country jalopy tour singing and creating songs for the industrial unions aborning.
There's only a rough track and I doubt if that jalopy of yours will make it.
Trade restrictions with then-apartheid era South Africa meant no new vehicles, while any second-hand jalopy that went for sale, however decrepit, was snapped up pronto.
The jalopy was something for a teenager to work towards.
Thus, grasping this stark reality, I am resigned to a certain amount of disruption as my jalopy splutters through no-go Birmingham.
I shall be content with my jalopy even if it's more often in the garage than on the road as long as it never tells tales or is one up on me.
That type of valuation would be akin to preferring a decrepit jalopy, with a nonfunctioning engine and a rusting chassis, to a serviceable new car solely on the grounds that the old wreck had a more appealing hood ornament.
A queasy combination of classic Wayne oat opera and happy jalopy jokiness a la Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
It's like when you were in high school, hanging out with your friends and tooling around in your parents' jalopy.
If we'd used the rhythm method of contraception I'd be trading in the jalopy for a 12-seater mini-van.
The latter even lived in the knackered exhaust pipe of an abandoned 1940s jalopy, which had also been conveniently dumped right next to the world's most telegenic cactus.
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It looked something like a cross between a schoolboy's jalopy and a scaled-down army tank of former times.
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