jumpy

Example Sentences

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Walk around it, and the shifting, light-reflective and -absorbent white forms create an uncanny illusion of the pillar in jumpy, unstable motion.

From Los Angeles Times

"Both the US and Taiwan are paranoid and jumpy about Palau switching," said Graeme Smith, a senior fellow at the Australian National University.

From BBC

Conservatives have insisted that jumpy gun owners, not firearms themselves, are to blame for the incidents.

From Washington Times

“They start to say, ‘I’m going to ask my mommy for a jumpy house, I want a magician, too,’” she said.

From Seattle Times

According to one widely held theory, she continued, the natural world encourages even the jumpiest among us to relax, slowing the onslaught of internal ruminations about every pressing concern, and letting our whirring brains quiet.

From Washington Post