Jerri Sentence Examples

If you’ve ever duct-taped a side mirror back onto a car or draped a blanket over some chairs for a makeshift tent, you’ve likely boasted about your jerry-rigging skills. But your talent for on-the-spot construction may have surpassed your vocabulary prowess, as the term is actually jury-rigged, not jerry-rigged. (Unless your name is Jerry and you’ve rigged it up; in which case, carry on.) Learn how you’ve gotten it wrong all these years — and whether or not jerry-rigged is a World War I-era insult.

The novels of writer Jack London are typically somewhat autobiographical, so you could say they are loosely based upon his life. He is best known for books that center around a character in a struggle against nature, but there are also a great many buried themes and messages within his books.