jerkily
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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
Their legs moved a little jerkily, like well-made wooden dolls, and they carried pillars of black fear about them.
From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck
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