Just is most commonly used as an adverb together with the present perfect tense. In this context, just means ‘a short time ago’, and is positioned between the auxiliary verb (had/ have/has) and the past participle.
For example:
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I’ve just spoken to John.
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Have you seen what’s just happened to the share price?
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They had just finished their dinner when the phone rang.
Just can also be used in place of the word «only»:
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Can I have just a little bit of cake, please?
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That’s just an excuse.
Although it is now old-fashioned, just can be used as a noun, relating to the concept of justice and standing in for ‘right’ or ‘correct’:
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Given the severity of the crime, life imprisonment was just.
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Her charity raises money for a just cause.
Finally, just is used in a wide variety of informal phrases:
- just a minute = wait
- just about = nearly
- just as well = for the best
- just help yourselves = go ahead
- just so = neat and tidy; precise
Examples of how to use the word “just” in a sentence. How to connect “just” with other words to make correct English sentences.
just (adv): now, very soon, or very recently
Use “just” in a sentence
| Don’t take it seriously. I’m just joking. |
| The journey has just begun. |
| He’s just arrived. |
| I’m just looking around. |
| My house is just across the street.
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Synonym: exact, fair, good, merely, moral, only, precise, proper, righteous, virtuous. Antonym: unjust. Similar words: just now, just as, adjust, justify, just about, do justice, just the same, adjustment. Meaning: [dʒʌst] 
adj. 1. used especially of what is legally or ethically right or proper or fitting 2. implying justice dictated by reason, conscience, and a natural sense of what is fair to all 3. free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception; or conforming with established standards or rules 4. of moral excellence. adv. 1. and nothing more 2. indicating exactness or preciseness 3. only a moment ago 4. absolutely 5. by a small margin.
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1. Be just to all, but trust not all. 
2. The darkest hour is just before the dawn.
3. Life is just a bowl of cherries.
4. Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
5. Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind.
6. The man who has just walked out is Tom.
7. I’ve just found a ten-pound note in my pocket.
8. His guitar solos are just unbelievable.
9. Just where is all this leading us?
10. This is just between you and me.
11. He got away just before the enemy came.
12. I just want to crash out on the sofa.
13. A crocodile was lurking just below the surface.
14. I forget that you’re just a false impression.
15. Time orbit we just one solitude of the subway.
16. I just get a repeat prescription every week.
17. This jacket is just my size.
18. A taxi passed by just a moment ago.
19. Men alleged oath, but is a beautiful lies just.
20. They just cleave the stone along the cracks.
21. They both taste just the same to me.
22. The trees are just coming into leaf.
23. All in all, just past. Ever had, only memories.
24. I’ve just had a tooth out at the dentist’s.
25. That’s just a lot of blah.
26. Sorry, I just crashed your car.
27. Don’t swagger just because you got the job.
28. He was getting excited just thinking about the trip.
29. I could just eat a little something.
30. He just released his hold and toppled slowly backwards.
More similar words: just now, just as, adjust, justify, just about, do justice, just the same, adjustment, must, industry, sustain, exhaust, custody, cluster, customer, wanderlust, frustrate, illustrate, industrial, sustainable, frustration.
Use the word just in a sentence. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use just in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for just.
- Just a pretext. (8)
- Just this once. (12)
- It is but just one. (4)
- Just a little turn? (8)
- And just cold enough! (8)
- Then let them be just. (8)
- She just shook her head. (8)
- Just give Arnold a chance. (18)
- My Brother has just left us. (4)
- She nearly fainted just now. (8)
- Just lend us a hand with this. (8)
- Just coming out, a pretty thing! (8)
- Boyne just casually mentioned it. (9)
- Well, then you must just find her. (8)
- What I said just now, meant nothing. (4)
- They had just sat there and trembled. (12)
- But that was just where I was mistaken. (9)
- Beauchamp was just as anxious to hurry away. (10)
- You could be equal and just, and simple and kind. (9)
- Just then he did see her, and his face lighted up. (8)
- You had it pat from having just been over it with me. (9)
- The lips were just open and showed strong white teeth. (8)
- What she loved best in the world just then was riding. (8)
- You have tried to do just right by me, as well as him. (9)
- The court delivered judgment just before the luncheon interval. (8)
- I feel…I feel it just here, he drew a hand along his midriff. (10)
- I just said that I was very sorry, and that I knew how she felt. (9)
- At first we just got our breath, thought nothing, talked a little. (8)
- I bet she just got us there to see how him and you would act together. (9)
- She stole a look at her husband, clothed in blue serge, just opposite. (8)
- According to what people say, he must have been just like the emperor. (12)
- Her eyes just then were comparing him maliciously with Prosper Profond. (8)
- Depend upon me for taking care that no tenant has more than his just rights. (4)
- Mary Lambe was preferable, and it was just the time of year to go to Scotland. (8)
- What she had just done was capable of many additional feats; she had tried it. (5)
- He reached the hotel just in time to rush up and dress, and rush down to dinner. (8)
- Our Richard has just been elected member of a Club for the promotion of nausea. (10)
- He asked to be allowed to speak a word to the man who had just entered the house. (22)
- Would she ever come to feel happy when he was just doing what he thought was right? (8)
- She left him with George and Gratian who had just come in, and went up for her bath. (8)
- She was so close that his moustache almost brushed her forehead, just under her hair. (8)
- My lord sketched the scene he had just quitted to a lady who had stopped her carriage. (10)
- Why was he not just an ordinary animal of a man that could enjoy what the gods had sent? (8)
- Whether or not the sentences were just, the judges should have sometimes shifted places. (10)
- The moon had just come up over in the South, and exactly under it he could see their mountain. (8)
- There was one where she was standing just below her little brother, who was perched upon a wall. (8)
- The flush had left his face, the brilliance had faded from his eyes; he looked just like a ghost. (8)
- We thought there was just a chance that, having lost that job, she might come to you again for advice. (8)
- But they would like just to see Mr. Soames again, and Mrs. Dartie, and Miss Francie, and Miss Euphemia. (8)
- She gave him just a nod, and waved her hand as a sign for him to go; and when he would not, she frowned. (8)
- Since they went, the season faintly pulses and respires, so that one can just say that it is still alive. (9)
- But you do know it, Mr. Beaton, and I am sure you know just how much or how little you mean by coming here. (9)
- I am just now bothered with an address to be given next week at the opening of a public library in Chelsea. (14)
- One, if one is in that line of work, feels instinctively just the size and carrying power of the given motive. (9)
- Thus they grew irritated with this old man who did not seem able to do anything but just hold his lanthorn up. (8)
- The train of the wounded had just come in, and she stood in the cheering crowd watching the ambulances run out. (8)
- He was wishing to get the better of his attachment to herself, she just recovering from her mania for Mr. Elton. (4)
- James and Emily had just gone up to bed, and after communicating the news to Warmson, Soames prepared to follow. (8)
- She gave, indeed, just excuse for people to consider her too good-looking for the position in which she was placed. (8)
- Where it stood, just below the line of shingle, it was now like a structure wasting on a tormented submerged reef. (10)
- But he could just recollect standing in the dark drawing-room, seeing and touching a ghostly Gyp quite close to him. (8)
- Meantime, Algernon retraced his way to the station in profound chagrin: arriving there just as the train was visible. (22)
- Passing the time because he did not believe in this life; not living at all, just preparing for the life he did believe in. (8)
- He told his wife that he guessed he had a sure thing of it now, and in another twenty-four hours he should tell her just how. (9)
- March confided to him his secret trouble as to tips, and they tried vainly to enlighten each other as to what a just tip was. (9)
- She had chosen desperation, and she thought herself very brave because she was just brave enough to fly from her abhorrence. (10)
- It gave her such delight to keep that look on his face, that look as if he had forgotten everything except just the sight of her. (8)
- On the road again, with a purse just as ill-furnished, and in his breast the light that sometimes leads gentlemen, as well as ladies, astray. (10)
- Pierson looked at the young man, whose long, narrow face; where one sandy-lashed eyelid drooped just a little, seemed armoured with a sort of limited omniscience. (8)
Also see sentences for: accurate, balanced, conscientious, correct, exact, fair, high-minded.
Definition of just:
- just, just, n. a tilt. same as joust.(0) | just, just, adv. lawful: upright: exact: regular: true: righteous. | adv. precisely, almost exactly, very lately, (_coll._) quite, barely. | adv. just’ly, in a just manner: equitably: uprightly: accurately: by right. | n. just’ness, equity: propriety: exactness. (0)
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Jorma didn’t mean to appear that nervous, «It’s just a bit lavish,» he said
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I would have liked to expound further, but I have just
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He was just starting his tenancy with Leand at the time, Tdeshi was thirty two decades in the future
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Jorma was just coming off the boats at the time
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just a fantasy but it is a reality
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that means walking with God is for you and me, not just
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Even if the pain people weren’t real, just to write that
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When Mom finally told me about the case, I remember just nodding and walking to my room to just stare at the ceiling and think
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The morals they decided to teach me were just so I wouldn’t turn out like this guy
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I know I shouldn’t have let this get to me—my parents were just trying to do what was best for me—but it still bothered me that my life growing up was so intertwined with a murderer like Robert Hansen
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Just death and rotting corpses
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covenant God made with Abraham was more than just
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Use that time, don’t just stand there, do something
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In that instance, don’t just do something, sit there
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“You’re just trying to avoid me
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People just don’t use that time effectively
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that it had just moved into another time-zone – yet another cautionary
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It’s probably just nerves
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“Did you shoot him? Fuck, Dad!” The man’s holding his stomach, just below his chest
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“No you just carry on it seems more interesting than mine”
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Take decisive actions, rather than detaching completely from problems and stresses and wishing they would just go away
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Would you be listening to what they are telling you from their perspective on life? Would you be being open minded and accepting that your point of view is just that, it’s your point of view
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We are just getting started, we’re just warming up, but I can imagine that you are probably seeing your life in a way that you have never seen it
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“I just wanted you to know the truth
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Here I have just underlined some of these so-called small
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understand because I explained it to you in a step by step system? Do you think that you would have the ability to do that? If you do, then by all means go ahead and spend an hour explaining to them exactly what you just learned
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That’s not going to go well, it’s just not
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He does a lot of odd jobs around the bar but he mostly just hangs around here to drink
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If she wanted the camp she would have just had it built, not snuck the aluminum in my sandal
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I know when I broke that one, and saw how much money is in just one, I saw it was as much money as I once thought Ava had
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«She got it at half price from Ava, but with her fortune Ava could buy a place like that every year and just leave it
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That’s what Venna did was just leave, not even a note and signature turning it over to me
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With that and his old place, he could buy a pretty nice place in town, a couple acres on the lagoon just a little ways down the point
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There is so much information out there but just monitor where you are
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Tom screams, paralyzed, as one just stares at him, not eating him
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It just stares at him, watching him scream
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«It’s not about you Jorma, just like it’s not about Tdeshi
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You are just innocent bystanders that Ava happened to run into along the way
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what or who is judging you; you just care only about what
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What if you were to just do 30 second bursts of
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He knew she would never be back to explain, he was just one of those people in the way
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Sam had just finished his masterclass in Nutritional awareness, and was preparing his papers to leave, when the auburn haired model approached his table
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He kept pining away for a blond girl he spent only one sleep with who was only passing thru Sinbara didn’t he? The one he met just before Ava
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So who did he want to share this sunshine with this dawn? That girl heading north, why did her face spring to mind, just because she was so exotically Elvish? It had been years, she was a cartoon in his mind now, it had been two meals and a sleep
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Sam was surprised at the crowds at the Oodle Festival, held just outside Berlin in the July of that year
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“I’m not going to just let her die
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He had to go find her, well maybe not today, but instead of just wishing she was here
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“I’m just glad I could help on such short notice
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“I just need to check that he’s breathing properly
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It was years too soon, he thought, but he hadn’t paid enough attention had he? Or was he just too drunk at the time? No one else seemed to think it was imminent, but there was no denying that it was something huge falling from the sky and it looked like it was aimed straight at the camp
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Ava’s week had started on a sad note when she saw Kulai off on the Flying Northwind just before Morningday lunch
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Just after the last one, the corridor became a wide and gradual staircase that lead to the floor above and a bridge to a court atop the next building
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He was said to be just sitting inside all day
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I just got distracted
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I’ll just wrap it up for later
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He tried his best and it just wasn’t good enough
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Most of the times we just
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Him about what He teaches and do, He will just say what
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I wasn’t really in it, it was just an I/O device to me
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A huge study that tracked thousands of nurses found that those who ate just an ounce of nuts or peanut butter five times a week lowered their risk of Type 2 diabetes by at least 20%
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it’s just a matter of seconds to reach thousands of people that have asked to hear from you
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It was just the instincts of this body that turned her head when big, broad-shouldered men with cleft chins walked by
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You’ll always know just how well you’re doing with this kind of reporting
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He just kept smiling and watching TV and dripping milk on his chin
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Two thousand years of foot traffic had worn the floors to rolling hills, the glass in the windows had sagged and the marble plumbing fixtures were heavily eroded, though they were just replaced a few centuries ago
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“Like chains,” the boy said, and Hermann thought that maybe he was silently going mad just while waiting in the terminal
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He did not have the strength to force her, it was not just the Instinct that kept her safe from him
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“I turn it on first thing in the morning, and then it’s up and running just before lunch time
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We were just strangers
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Henry had just delivered a sales report to his boss that was over a year old
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One was just clothes, some hanging up and some folded neatly in their little cubbyholes
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Their leader had died of an imported pathogen just three local years ago
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