jerk
Example Sentences
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“Maybe the Russians, to jerk the U.S. around, are waiving all the formalities,” he said.
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.
At this week’s trial, Customs and Border Protection officer Joseph Zuraw said Judge Dugan jerked her thumb over her shoulder and told the agents to “get out.”
Am I being a jerk if I just don’t do anything at all?
From MarketWatch
For the last 12 years, Lillie O’Brien has run London Borough of Jam out of a tiny jar-lined shop between a jerk chicken stand and a fashion designer on Chatsworth Road, in Hackney’s Clapton neighborhood.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
