Example Sentences

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Icez, rapper and producer: Everybody wanted to be the best jerker, best producer, best rapper, best dancer of the movement.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2025

The Fault in Our Stars is an adaptation of John Green’s best-selling young adult tear jerker novel of the same name.

From Time • Jun. 3, 2014

U. S. and British cinemagoers are still being moved to smiles & tears by the smile-&-tear jerker, Goodbye, Mr. Chips.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ellen Drew, onetime soda jerker, took off her mink coat and mixed a soda for photographers in a Manhattan drugstore.

From Time Magazine Archive

Red Skelton is a soda jerker with an allergy for ice cream.

From Time Magazine Archive