Example Sentences

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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

The men with logs balance jerkily, while an entire family wobbles precariously by on one bicycle.

From New York Times • Dec. 16, 2016

“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

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