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
Dolgopolov does not so much stroke the tennis ball as he jerkily slaps at it, but when his timing is on, the results are breathtaking.
From New York Times ● Aug. 31, 2017
The bedroom was warm, and I alternated between feeling drowsy and anxiously, jerkily awake.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 27, 2017
Kyril Montana watched the chopper start, lift jerkily off the meadowland, and rise at an awkward slant, then whizz down the canyon, almost clipping treetops.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
