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How to use jerky in a sentence

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Crunchy cereals, pretzels, soy nuts, veggie chips, even beef or turkey jerky can help satisfy the need to work the jaw while filling the stomach.
The money must be paid in cash, to each person in refugee camps as they line up for their daily cup of dirty water and dried beef jerky.
The younger girl had fallen asleep, curled up in her blanket and still clutching the strip of beef jerky.
The slices of deep red sausage had the pungent flavour of barbecued pork, quite similar to a sweet beef jerky.
They each got two strips of jerky for meals, each about as long as a man's hand and as thick as two fingers.
I've let this old carcass get as stiff as beef jerky on a cold winter morning.
If you go to their site, they seem to be interested not so much in flying stuff to the moon but in selling beef jerky.
We saw strips of deep red beef jerky, sheets of golden-colored glucose that looked like glass, orange rind and salmon skin.
Maybe you'll even have some change left over for a candy bar or a pack of beef jerky.
Judging from his jerky motions and his giddy expression, he is still as high as a kite on adrenaline.
Actions are jerky and the bird hops rather than climbs even when beneath a branch.
Less well-known are the small toucans known as aracaris, who have their own jerky charm.
A bait rig is a string of very small lures which are lowered to the bottom and raised with short jerky movements.
This results in jerky movements, problems with rhythm, being behind or above the bit, general dissatisfaction or resistance.
Never do any bouncing or jerky motions or you could strain or tear muscles, ligaments or tendons.
He was a tall, robustly built person and I felt my arm joints aching after his jerky double hand shake.
And for the first time it seems to be populated by people, not jerky mimes in pancake makeup.
They sell turkey jerky, bits of woolly mammoth tusk, shot glasses, and salty snacks.
Whether she is right in urging sharp, jerky movements in gymnastics is debatable.
Though it sounds totally absurd, filet mignon beef jerky just might be the most snackable thing out there.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Presently, after eons it seemed, she desperately evoked a small, jerky voice.
In a dozen jerky sentences the owner of the fiddleback told Flandrau of the suspicions of the sheriff.
Jerry slammed on the foot brake and the car came to a jerky halt at the curb.
The gangling Texan was testing his rudder controls and flipping his ailerons with jerky movements of evident impatience.
All the movements of the red squirrel are quick, sharp, jerky, machine-like.
He did not know that behind the jerky manner and inexpressive face there was a Soul.
You know she never can stand anybody all jumpy, and jerky, and quivery, like you are now.
He leaned forward now, and began to speak with a jerky, almost incoherent haste, telescoping his words.
In jerky sentences she told of the engagement and how the news had reached her.
The man has a penchant for short and nervous sentences, but they are never jerky.
Both are very ancient, sadly in need of upholstery, and jerky of locomotion.
Tom noticed with dismay that Bud was not responding very well, his feeble strokes were jerky and uncoordinated.
This belatedness causes a jerky motion of the arm and imparts it to the hand.
This is no cartage by a team hauling in the open, but a jerky removal, the work of invisible levers.
Lloyd warmed to the talk in his nervous, jerky fashion, and was soon interrogating the physical properties and possibilities of invisibility.
How was she going to get on with such jolty, jerky, bossy people?
My jests, gentlemen, are of course in bad taste, jerky, involved, lacking self-confidence.
His gray clothes and jerky, zigzag, irregular progress made him not unlike some huge moth himself.
Gringoire tried to slip in some excuse between these curt words, which wrath rendered more and more jerky.
The regimental commander walked with his jerky steps to the front of the regiment and examined it from a distance.
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