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How to use jerkily in a sentence

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It swung downward jerkily, allowing access from the ground and up onto the fire escape.
It rolled slowly, jerkily, as if things inside were shifting around as it moved.
The visuals are so polished and shiny that the characters lack the personality of their jerkily animated former selves.
I uttered a strangled yelp of sheer terror, as the unidentified floating object moved jerkily toward me.
She stood up and began to pace up and down, jerkily, as though her muscles hadn't been used for a long time.
The little rental car jumps along jerkily as Dad tries to shift gears without giving himself a cardiac arrest.
Every hour, it jerkily rears up on its hind legs and waggles its forelegs a bit.
He scuttled ahead to hold open the door, moving so jerkily that his periwig slipped down over his forehead.
After consuming the trance-inducing peyote, men and women move in a counterclockwise progression, leaping jerkily and twisting their bodies.
The technique consists in casting the Mouse as near as possible to the opposite river bank and then vigourously pulling it back jerkily.
When new, your correspondent's off-road vehicle always started jerkily from rest, no matter how gentle he was on the gas.
They can row continuously with their small antennae or swim quickly and jerkily using their long antennae and abdomen.
Should the power decrease of the motor run jerkily, check the carbon brushes.
These tiny crustaceans move jerkily in little jumps, and are therefore commonly known as water fleas.
The one grasped the other's arm and jerkily pulled her away from me.
In fact, drawing is prominent in the paintings, whether jerkily outlining colored patches or visible as the pentimenti of earlier, barely erased marks.
Avoid pulling on the cable, especially jerkily.
The playing of videos that are archived on DVD media is sometimes jerkily.
They also argue that if Iran continues to rock jerkily between reform and regression, there will almost certainly be repetitions of last summer's student riots and the regime's brutal response. They have a point.
Work done a couple of years ago by Mark Pagel of Reading University, in England, suggests that about a fifth of evolutionary change happens jerkily at around the time new species form.
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Examples from Classical Literature
He saw the water carrier enter through the bamboo gate, heard the water slosh about jerkily as the bheestee emptied his goatskin.
I pushed with all my might and, slowly and jerkily, the dingy slid off the shoal.
While Mr Bloom stood weighing the point and about to smile he strode on jerkily.
At last she had bowed to you jerkily and sat down again, leaving the field to you.
Then he turned and walked jerkily, mindlessly, round and round the globe like a wooden soldier marching.
Stingray, the 1960s Gerry Anderson series, was populated by unconvincing puppets moved jerkily by an unseen hand.
They swarm jerkily in it so that the liquid seemed to seethe.
When he walked, it was jerkily, as a drunk man sometimes does.
Then he staggered back and jerkily brought his arm across his eyes.
He watched the lanky civilian as Lansing puffed jerkily on his cigar.
He stood before her fire and asked her jerkily if she would let him smoke.
The ticker began to reel out jerkily its fitful coils of tape, the desk telephone had a chronic attack of buzzing.
Raskolnikov, white as a handkerchief, had answered sharply, jerkily, without dropping his black feverish eyes before Ilya Petrovitch's stare.
Later, he roams jerkily and wide-eyed like a child as he yearns to take control of his own destiny in the way he believes real humans do.
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