jerkily
Example Sentences
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A tear skittered down my cheek and was jerkily wiped away.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 7, 2019
Sirens sound, the youth turns to run into a bunker, and the camera jerkily follows.
From Nature ● Jan. 1, 2019
The bedroom was warm, and I alternated between feeling drowsy and anxiously, jerkily awake.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 27, 2017
“Be my hero! The world is right before me, the future is in my eyes!” a pop singer crooned as they jerkily pumped their small, identical fists in the air.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2016
Their legs moved a little jerkily, like well-made wooden dolls, and they carried pillars of black fear about them.
From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck
