jerkily

The last he saw of the ship was it careening jerkily off course.

His stream of consciousness jerkily encompasses, at one point or another, Michael Jackson, Bill Clinton, Medgar Evers and his mother’s pinto beans.

Inside the hospital room where he lies, the man is taking in extra oxygen through a tube, his chest rising and falling jerkily, his breathing labored.

She transitions — jerkily, messily — from the torturous present tense of watching a child slowly die to living in a future of possibility.

A balloon would start up jerkily, on a great bias, and be torn by the wind or blown against the houses of the square.