jerkily

Example Sentences

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Sirens sound, the youth turns to run into a bunker, and the camera jerkily follows.

From Nature • Jan. 1, 2019

Unexpectedly, Angela found herself thinking, in a spirit of protecting Cecilia from all the dangers out there, Move more gracefully, less jerkily.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 10, 2018

“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

Only once does a child seem irked by the camera’s presence or possibly the man behind it; whatever the case, it jerkily shifts view, a move suggestive of a hurriedly averted gaze.

From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2013

Their little bodies twitched and stiffened; their limbs moved jerkily as if to the tug of unseen wires.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley