Example Sentences

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This is a world that may partly exist in the past, but it’s jumpily noisy, and still alive.

From New York Times • Dec. 16, 2021

Everyone starts moving quickly, jumpily, trying to suppress the sinking feeling that this is not like the other asthma flares we see, that this person is too sick for us to save.

From New York Times • Dec. 16, 2019

But the question becomes whether jumpily edited copies of paintings are an improvement over jumpy viewers.

From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2010

Talking jumpily and a little like a phonograph record running too fast, he sprays his monologues with far-out terms such as chick, drag, gasser, cool it, bug, dig, weirdo and all that jazz.

From Time Magazine Archive

If I could break away from whatever it was that kept pulling me jumpily through time, I could go and see them.

From The Old Die Rich by Gold, Horace Leonard