jerkily

Example Sentences

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His stream of consciousness jerkily encompasses, at one point or another, Michael Jackson, Bill Clinton, Medgar Evers and his mother’s pinto beans.

From New York Times • Oct. 26, 2022

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

A balloon would start up jerkily, on a great bias, and be torn by the wind or blown against the houses of the square.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway