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

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

Motioning to Omakayas, she indicated Neewo, who was trembling now, his tiny arms and legs moving jerkily as the heat in his body increased, and increased, until he had not the strength to even cry.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich