jerkily

Example Sentences

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A tear skittered down my cheek and was jerkily wiped away.

From Washington Post • Aug. 7, 2019

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

The ants of one species, proceeding jerkily across a path, leave trails that can be followed by their own relatives but not by others.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas