jerkily

How To Use jerkily In A Sentence

• In fact, drawing is prominent in the paintings, whether jerkily outlining colored patches or visible as the pentimenti of earlier, barely erased marks.
• Every hour, it jerkily rears up on its hind legs and waggles its forelegs a bit.
• Using his stick heavily, he moved jerkily towards the car.
• Besides plain whistling, there were warbles (made by blowing jerkily) and trills (made by rolling an "r" while blowing); by blowing patterns of high and low notes of varying style, most anything that needed to be communicated on shipboard could be said. Archive 2008-06-01
• The little rental car jumps along jerkily as Dad tries to shift gears without giving himself a cardiac arrest.
• Using his stick heavily, he moved jerkily towards the car.
• The wings flapped jerkily, click, block, clitter clock, and the machines drove up; they spread and ceased, and the apparatus came soaring through the air. The War in the Air
• The other, walking jerkily at her side, was a small, stringy, grey-haired man. UNREASONABLE DOUBT
• I uttered a strangled yelp of sheer terror, as the unidentified floating object moved jerkily toward me.
• She rose stiffly, jerkily from the window seat