Examples of “jenny” in a Sentence

noun A machine with multiple spindles used to spin thread from raw fiber, historically important to the textile industry (short for "spinning jenny").

• The museum has a working jenny that shows how cotton thread was once made.
• Before the jenny, spinning was slow work done by hand at home.
• The spinning jenny let one worker spin several threads at once.

noun A female donkey (or, less commonly, a female of certain other animals such as a wren).

• The jenny stood quietly in the field beside her foal.
• Our neighbor keeps a jenny to guard the sheep from foxes.
• The farm had two jennies and one male donkey.