jerked

The upward jerking motion keeps fluid from dripping into the air below.

Jobs has been associated with a belief that his undoubted genius excused any kind of behavior, even to the point where many believe a founder actually has to be a jerk to be a genius.

Imagine you work in an office where your boss, who you think is a jerk, needs your help to finish his projects.

A few months into my often twice-weekly trips to Top Taste, I asked Sammy how he made his jerk chicken.

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The guard shoved him against the wall, jerked his hands behind him and handcuffed him.

If she were in a panic, or terrified, or jerked awake during a fire, she would not remember how to produce those American sounds.

“I got jerked both ways in the car, hit my head on the divider, and then hit my legs on the side of the car,” he says.

He jerked the window up with such force that it jammed after having opened only five inches.

While Roth is clearly annoyed at being "jerked around," others say it might make sense for Lautner to book projects fast.

She sat straight up in bed, and jerked her hands to her head, and screamed long and terribly.

"Here's my authority, yuh blasted runt," he yelled, and jerked his six-shooter to a level with the policeman's breast.

It took twenty Eskimos to hold it when allowed full play, and even these it jerked about in a manner that highly diverted them.

My hand flew to mine as I jerked the dun up short, but I wasn't fast enough—and Hicks was too close.

From the moment that they jerked up their horses at MacRae's call, I had an odd sense of impending trouble.