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

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

At first, they stand in three trios, arms stretching upward as if playing, jerkily, at being trees — an image that returns.

From New York Times • May 18, 2016

I nod jerkily and realize that his eyes are not blue or green but a deep chestnut brown.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir