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Grammar : Noun
Spell : juhm-ping-awf, -of
Phonetic Transcription : ˈdʒʌm pɪŋˈɔf, -ˈɒf



Définition of jumping-off place

  • noun starting point
Example sentences :
  • He had come to a jumping-off place in his life—why had they not let him jump?
  • Extract from : « The Gentleman From Indiana » by Booth Tarkington
  • Surely he had not waited, shivering and hesitating, at the jumping-off place.
  • Extract from : « The Hill » by Horace Annesley Vachell
  • To some of them indeed Khartoum is only a jumping-off place.
  • Extract from : « Round the Wonderful World » by G. E. Mitton
  • He had been mighty near the jumping-off place that time, sure.
  • Extract from : « Lone Pine » by R. B. (Richard Baxter) Townshend
  • “But there is a jumping-off place at the bottom,” objected Margery.
  • Extract from : « The Meadow-Brook Girls on the Tennis Courts » by Janet Aldridge
  • "This is the jumping-off place," cried Marion, as they came in sight of the water.
  • Extract from : « Irma in Italy » by Helen Leah Reed
  • So you're Hilgarde's brother, and here I've run into you at the jumping-off place.
  • Extract from : « The Troll Garden and Selected Stories » by Willa Cather
  • Neither knowing the name of the other, they next met at this jumping-off place.
  • Extract from : « The Land of Nome » by Lanier McKee
  • Before long we arrived at what may be called the "jumping-off place."
  • Extract from : « The Lake of the Sky » by George Wharton James
  • I suppose the Foreign Office will help me to get to the jumping-off place?'
  • Extract from : « Greenmantle » by John Buchan

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