jumpy

Example Sentences

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“The market is very, very jumpy when it comes to the risks to foreign demand” for Treasurys, said Thomas Simons, a money-market economist for Jefferies in New York.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 30, 2026

As rates retreated from recent highs, investors have gotten jumpy at reports of troubled corporate borrowers.

From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026

The logistical obstacle course they would need to navigate for the evacuation included soothing jumpy horses, scrambling for last-minute cargo flights and navigating Belgian bureaucracy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 14, 2026

Walk around it, and the shifting, light-reflective and -absorbent white forms create an uncanny illusion of the pillar in jumpy, unstable motion.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2025

So many years around the Commandant would make me jumpy too.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir