jerking

Example Sentences

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An early riser, Witkoff begins his day as it ends, pacing with his cellphone on a video call, its camera jerking haphazardly around the interior of his waterfront Miami mansion or private jet.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 20, 2025

As for Arthur, the eye midge grants him a second life of sorts, popping itself into his dead skull and jerking him from prone into a seated position.

From Salon • Sep. 24, 2025

Sometimes he fills the screen with road, other times he places the lens between the windshield and the wheel so all we can see is Pitt’s gloved fist jerking around turns.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 26, 2025

But one weekend in the fall of 2022, with my wife and sleeping infant in the back, the Altima started jerking wildly on a busy street in San Francisco, then went dead.

From Slate • Mar. 9, 2024

Despite the jerking of the train, Hanako must have slept, because when she looked at her mother again, the baby was gone.

From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata