How To Use Jerkily In A Sentence
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In fact, drawing is prominent in the paintings, whether jerkily outlining colored patches or visible as the pentimenti of earlier, barely erased marks.
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Every hour, it jerkily rears up on its hind legs and waggles its forelegs a bit.
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Using his stick heavily, he moved jerkily towards the car.
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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.
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The little rental car jumps along jerkily as Dad tries to shift gears without giving himself a cardiac arrest.
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Using his stick heavily, he moved jerkily towards the car.
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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
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The other, walking jerkily at her side, was a small, stringy, grey-haired man.
UNREASONABLE DOUBT
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I uttered a strangled yelp of sheer terror, as the unidentified floating object moved jerkily toward me.
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She rose stiffly, jerkily from the window seat
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Using his stick heavily, he moved jerkily towards the car.
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I-- I can't -- help it!" chattered Freddie, his words coming jerkily, for he was being "jiggled" himself, as the rudder shook from side to side in his hand.
The Bobbsey Twins in a Great City
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It rolled slowly, jerkily, as if things inside were shifting around as it moved.