• Despite our best efforts, the deer had easily jumped our carefully erected fence.
• Visitors are ignoring numerous written and verbal warnings not to exit the building, and are jumping barriers or opening fire exits to get on to the mountain.
• When she questioned them one of the men punched her in the face, leaving her with a swollen eye and a gash to the forehead, before the pair jumped the barriers and ran off.

Synonyms

• Two riders jumped steady clears to finish ahead of Joanne, but she held on to the third ticket after an agonising wait.
• Fantasia jumped lazily the first time, but cantered after the fence - a sure sign your horse jumped well.
• ‘He was beaten by a very good horse but he jumped well and battled well,’ he said.

• Fuel prices in Perth are also on the rise, with the average unleaded price jumping from 84.7 cents a litre on Monday to 92.4 cents yesterday.
• On Monday, European oil stocks performed well as the price of oil jumped to its highest level in three months.
• China's coal prices have jumped more than 40 per cent over the past year.

Synonyms

• The place was jumping, yes a little bit over crowded, and slightly pretentious, but that just added to the atmosphere.
• Well get down to the Dooney some night this week, because the place is literally jumping with the best music and craic around.
• The annual regatta fortnight is held over the final week of July and first week of August, a time when the place is jumping with visitors and locals alike.

• They were installed at traffic lights along the busy A630 Balby corridor last March to stop motorists jumping red lights.
• Leigh's car was seen driving at high speeds close to another car and both vehicles jumped a red light.
• Another idea is placing cameras on traffic lights to catch drivers jumping red lights.

Synonyms

• Money was tight and we had to keep low, so we jumped a freight train to get back to New York.
• I wound up jumping freight trains, going to Texas and not going to school, working in the oil fields, bucking hay, and doing all kinds of stuff.
• Our hero took his chance and legged it, grabbing his coat and case and jumping train miles from home.

• During an argument over which settler had the right to jump the land claim of an Indiana lumber company, Coleman shot Dow in the back.
• After Deborah wins Linda's quarter-section from Crook by jumping the claim, she and Eden develop the land and begin extracting manganese from the hill at the center of the property.

• The man, surprised by this sudden movement jumped, and screamed.
• We all jumped, surprised that she was even paying attention.
• Whenever something fell or moved, she'd jump in surprise.

Synonyms

• The storyline jumps forward and backward in time in non-linear fragments.
• While the script jumps forward and backwards in time, Rose leaves more unexplained than he should.
• He was talking really fast, jumping from one subject to the next, probably hoping that he would not have to listen to what I had to say.

• But with tears streaming down my face it was easy to jump the dozen places to the front of the taxi queue.
• Chuck was happy that his daughter was smart enough to jump a grade, but at the same time, it disturbed him. She was growing up so fast.

• As I squeezed the trigger, the sound was deafening, the gun jumped uncontrollably in my hands.
• The polygraph needles jumped and the readings scrolled out.
• I see him pointing right at me, the gun jumping in his hands.

• So he would know not to jump right into a relationship with you!
• Whenever suffering appears we quickly jump to someone's aid.
• As quickly as he had jumped to judge Tyler, Jon was learning to have pity for him.

• If responder has a count of 12 points he can jump straight to three No-Trumps.

• Victim of a seemingly random attack, he was jumped and kicked to a pulp as he made his way home from a 21st birthday celebration.
• Micky Adams is walking down the ramp when suddenly he is jumped from behind by a little guy dressed all in black.
• Just as he was about to break the lock off the carriage door, he was suddenly jumped from behind.

• The ‘Blues’ were to win almost every major race in Europe and America, on the flat as well as over the jumps and in harness racing.
• Any horse falling at the trial jump or twice refusing is not allowed to compete.
• The award is aimed at recognising consistently good performances in the major races of the jumps season.

Synonyms

• But as Halvorsen said, the challenge for high-building jumping is to open the parachute successfully during the jump.
• Now, nearly 13 years later, she has decided to do a parachute jump to raise money for the special care baby unit at Great Western Hospital.
• At once terrifying and thrilling, many would consider a parachute jump to be the experience of a lifetime.

• The study blamed rapidly expanding road networks and a sharp increase in flights for the dramatic jump in air, noise and light pollution in the past decade.
• Inflation in the UK took a sudden upward jump last month, rising to an annual rate of 2.6%.
• We just found out the other day that gross domestic product rose 3.8 percent, a huge jump.

Synonyms

• Employers have to rethink the way they treat older workers - a gradual glide into retirement being much better than a sudden jump.
• Of course, I flew from London to Istanbul, so it was a sudden jump from one culture to another, rather than a gradual shift.
• Moreover, the transition between these two regimes is known to be sharp; it is a true discontinuity, a sudden jump rather than a smooth gradation.

• Generally, a jump bid indicates to your (still-bidding) partner that there is at least one suit for which you cannot supply a card needed for the run.