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How to use jerks in a sentence

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The scientist pushes the pendulum across a pin board of magnets and it jerks randomly in constant motion.
Until the dog and I were out for a stroll and happened along some jerks throwing rocks in the ocean.
But it is fun to think of the worst American newsrooms as comprising a bunch of jerks working for an elite corps of nincompoops.
This was pretty cool, until I realized that the only reason driving is this easy is that I am one of the jerks still working.
Begin your sessions with exercises like deadlifts, squats, clean and jerks, and bench presses.
I would have 860 lb weights on my shoulders and would do one-arm jerks with 120 lb weights.
Instead of writing off incommunicative guys as jerks, step back and realize guys are people, too.
What this basically means is that they serve hamburgers, tuna sandwiches, chicken wings and hot dogs in addition to the jerks, rotis and curries.
Four conspicuous jerks forwards, with slower retreats, were seen on one occasion to occur in exactly one minute, besides some minor oscillations.
Such tendon jerks are tested as part of a routine neurological examination, to assess the state of synaptic connections.
When the myoclonic jerks are unilateral, a more serious condition is often suspected.
The Scottish National Party wants to see adults and children swapping the crisp and couch for fruit, fibre, and physical jerks.
Opiate drugs can help relieve pain, and the drugs clonazepam and sodium valproate may help relieve involuntary muscle jerks.
Usually these movements include dorsiflexions of the ankles and toes, which are slower than myoelonic jerks.
When pressing on though, all the random sounds, graunches and jerks disappear and it all comes together beautifully.
I was on my way home from school when this bunch of jerks in archaic duds tried to drive a knife into me.
Rather it's the incoherent screenplay, direction which jerks from one improbable setting to another and lets itself wander off into teen romance.
Then the miracle play jerks to life. A chop strikes home, straight to the skull, a head is bloodied.
After he had his fill, the mantis gave his foreleg several swift jerks and freed his leg.
Are you assuming I give you special treatment over any of the other jerks that attend this hellhole?
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Examples from Classical Literature
But if Zelda and these other catatonics are teaching ghosts, these ghosts are the dumbest jerks anywhere.
There he sat, and the conversation progressed in jerks and spirts, between pauses of embarrassing silence.
The day was hot, and after a few jerks he extracted a pocket-handkerchief from his sleeve.
The gripman usually jerks his thumb over his shoulder and indicates the next car, which is three miles away.
Then they gets up and shakes theirselves till the bus jerks them back again, and there they are, a more 'opeless 'EAP than ever.
I had cherished a profound conviction that her bringing me up by hand, gave her no right to bring me up by jerks.
The jolt jerks up its passengers in the semidetached steerage.
He waited there in awful suspense as it dropped in little jerks, inch by inch.
Here he gathered himself together, and by means of a series of frog-like jerks, succeeded in bringing himself close to Denham.
He continued speaking with those brief and panting jerks, which betoken deep internal convulsions.
He jerks out his pipe an' breaks it in flinders ober my head.
Between halts and stumbles, jerks and lurches, locomotion had at times seemed impossible.
There were no olives for the cocktails, and the service was by hitches and jerks.
The regiment, involved like a cart involved in mud and muddle, started unevenly with many jolts and jerks.
She sneezed continually, and her stub of a tail was doing its best toward lashing about by giving quick, violent jerks.
As the nocking point jumps up and down during the power stroke, it jerks the arrow hock up and down, which creates excessive and violent oscillation in the arrow.
The old gentlewoman's heart seemed to be attached to the same steel spring, for it went through a series of sharp jerks, in unison with the sound.
He was a cinder, a bit of a clinker of a man, a little animated clinker, not yet quite cold, that moved stiffly and by starts and jerks like an automaton.
I was in the very first act of detailing an Expedition to succor him, when the cord was assailed with a series of such frantic jerks that I could hardly keep hold of it.
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