How To Use Jerky In A Sentence

  • But, whatever harm Macscruby thinks our flag might do to his beef jerky, McDonald's had no misgivings on its effect on the Big Mac.
  • Her dreamy, cinematic songs were bewitching, her jerky dance moves beguiling. Times, Sunday Times
  • 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.
  • The $5,000 also has gone toward buying things like beef jerky, anti-fungal foot cream and DVDs.
  • Reef managers mediate between the values of developers and the values of conservationists in an ongoing herky-jerky process in which it seems to both sides that they are taking three steps forward and two steps back.
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  • The puppets are slightly skew whiff, their movements endearingly jerky, but this only serves to add to the quirky appeal of the film. Times, Sunday Times
  • The rest of the movie is a lot like that: moody and unpredictable, using lots of close-ups and jerky documentary-style zooms and fast cuts.
  • Jerky recipe sounds great. someone just gave me some deer peperoni and they must have flubbed somewhere because it was so salty, even after cooking some with cabbage, I threw the rest away. what a waste of good meat. gotta have jerky for the kids, young and old Deer Candy: Phil Bourjaily's Favorite Venison Jerky Recipe
  • Part of the reason why this series works so well is that it is based in character and craft, not the instant joke or the jerky punchline.
  • Led by the nose I become inquisitive and jerky in movement. Fools Rush In - A Call to Christian Clowning
  • There is a strange, herky-jerky character to her assault, almost as if we were watching an old, speeded-up silent film, that at once distances us from the action and yet makes it more horrible.
  • Some people seem hell-bent on misinterpreting you, even people you thought weren't inclined to having jerky knees.
  • His spoken word bit about being on a plane bound for Manila and asking for curried chicken as the pilots lose control is delivered in a series of herky-jerky inflections and with enormous relish.
  • I can barely hear Greg over the over-woofed amplifiers, but the bride, groom and their guests don't seem to notice as they herky-jerky bust their moves on the dance floor. What Remains II
  • Most of the cutscenes are handled with the in-game engine but character movements are often jerky.
  • Here in Mazatlan shrimp capital of Mexico, huge dried shrimp are sold year round by the seafood changeras and are munched on whole con cascara y todo like popcorn or shrimp jerky by the local beer drinking crowd for about 50 weeks as a botana. What to do with dried shrimp??
  • But the johns0 guide for this also puts the audio at a higher and unnatural pitch: playing NTSC discs on PAL equipment often results in jerky / juddery artifacts, VideoHelp.com Forum
  • What disease is characterized by sudden jerky movements called chorea? NYT > Home Page
  • The slices of deep red sausage had the pungent flavour of barbecued pork, quite similar to a sweet beef jerky.
  • Lifted from their debut EP, this minimalistic yet charmingly whimsical slice of lo-fi alt-folk opens with nought but a lone slappy bass riff and jerky surreal prose, before blossoming out into a cacophony of wondrous twangy noises, and ends up sounding like Badly Drawn Boy, Sufjan Stevens and a parliament of owls caught up in a weird feathery, beardy group hug, happily tumbling down an upwards escalator in slow motion. This week's new singles
  • The toy robot moved forward with quick jerky steps.
  • Most specialise in such Caribbean favourites as chicken jerky, spicy meat patties and sweetened fried banana.
  • On the mound, Willis relied on a windmill windup with a herky-jerky motion and a puzzling assortment of pitches to set National League hitters on their ears for a couple of months until he ran into a slump in mid-August.
  • The trade-off for a short running length is a herky-jerky narrative that rarely moves smoothly.
  • The jerky flight of the pipistrelle gave rise to the ancient name for bats - the flittermouse.
  • My guide is mainly for pal-ntsc where the pal video almost always have that higher and unnatural pitch due to being speeded. most people dont notice or care about 4\% speeded up sound for ntsc-pal anyways. playing NTSC discs on PAL equipment often results in jerky / juddery artifacts, VideoHelp.com Forum
  • The toy robot moved forward with quick jerky steps.
  • Maybe you'll even have some change left over for a candy bar or a pack of beef jerky.
  • It's a herky-jerky journey - some of it fascinating, much of it dizzyingly random - as eccentric and chaotic as a lost-and-found bin. Undone by a house of dreams
  • She lit a cigarette with quick , jerky movement.
  • No transfer is good enough to mask the soft effects shots and jerky stop-motion clips.
  • Michal Czerwonka for The Wall Street Journal Fred Stoller Fred Stoller's neurotic Brooklynite whine makes Woody Allen seem like an amateur, and Mr. Stoller, 52, has worked his gift into a career, first as a deadpan stand-up comic and then as a nebbishy actor in countless short-lived sitcom roles: Elaine's annoying date in an episode of "Seinfeld," a mopey cousin on "Everybody Loves Raymond," a jerky waiter on "Friends. Diary of a Nebbishy Comic: 'My Seinfeld Year'
  • To be exact, his language fuzzy, jerky, vocative, symbolic, affective, and musical, as is typical of a poetic text.
  • I enjoyed the concert, although the playing was rather jerky at times.
  • His skin was dry and hot, his breathing rapid and jerky.
  • His sudden, jerky movements caused the vampire to fall off of him.
  • It moved with the jerky progress of a mouse, a lovely bird full of bright character, like a runt dunnock, severely streaked but with a cocked tail and a beady eye, and just four inches long. A Year on the Wing
  • In hipster enclaves, we spent $10 on authentic artisan pickles or beef jerky.
  • Norman unleashes torrents of sap, better suited to network TV than to thoughtful cinema, all presented with a herky-jerky camera technique, intended to convey… documentary feel?
  • One evening, plumb tuckered out – it had been a dreadful hard hot day, and the bread wouldn't raise and the churning had gone wrong, and I was all irritated and jerky – well, that evening I made mention to dad of this wanting to run of mine. The Night-Born
  • Their movements become jerky, stressed, excited. Times, Sunday Times
  • Adams recoiled from the “oily, sickish, slightly fetid odor” he smelled everywhere, and throughout his trip would complain that Japanese women were like cheap dolls—wooden, jerky, mechanical. The Five of Hearts
  • If people are turning off network television coverage, which at least offers quality sound and images, it's beyond me why an online site would expect to draw an audience with herky-jerky Internet video and intermittent audio.
  • Belly dancing is unlike many other dance forms that use harsh or jerky movements.
  • There is an attempt at, but no true, clonus; that is, passive flexion of the foot causes two or three jerky movements. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
  • The toy robot moved forward with quick jerky steps.
  • They clip-clopped along the semblance of a path at a constant but jerky pace.
  • What began as a smooth approach ended up as a jerky, disjointed affair. Times, Sunday Times
  • Jerky rhythms that do nothing more than prove these simians can count to five instead of four are used, overused and abused on each and every song.
  • A typical epileptic fit A would make you suddenly pass out and suffer jerky movements of your arms and legs. The Sun
  • Llama meat was the first jerky; or charqui, as the Inca called it. Boing Boing
  • Bottle feeding the calves that grow up to provide the meat for her beef jerky diet snacks? Times, Sunday Times
  • Chip can do yoga on request, but his movements are jerky, overlaid with a metallic noise. Times, Sunday Times
  • Other favorite dishes include morogo or imifino, a wild leaf stew; bobotie, a minced beef curry; bitlong, which is dried meat similar to jerky; a fried bread called vetkoek; and sosaties, which are made of marinated lamb and apricots.
  • It changes down beautifully, but upshifts are either slow or jerky or full of clutch-slip.
  • Never do any bouncing or jerky motions or you could strain or tear muscles, ligaments or tendons.
  • Dante took a slice of beef jerky that was in his pocket and gave it to the boy.
  • So far, there is no news on a proper automatic transmission, ideal for heavy-city traffic, as the selespeed can be too jerky in stop-go traffic.
  • She bent her legs and wiggled her entire body in a jerky motion, flicking her long fingers outward, while her wooden silk hair splayed out around her as the crimson ribbon was lost.
  • Mr Griffin made a jerky gesture.
  • The capital was gripped by the imperial government's jerky moves to a new political and economic liberalism. PHYLLOXERA: How Wine was Saved for the World
  • m. don't announce aerotrain arriving; people got eyes and they don't want to be reminded they have to take a jerky train after decanting from a jittery flight through turbulence. Planet Malaysia
  • Bubbling synthesizer, jerky, soulfully 'sincere' vocal, tappity-tappity hi-hat rhythm — quietly tasteful, it ends up numbingly soporific. Times, Sunday Times
  • It's a staccato language of enigmatic hand gestures, flailing arms, touching oneself, herky-jerky starts and stops, plunging into space, crashing, spinning, jumping back up.
  • As jerky companies are putting more marketing dollars behind their products, retailers are responding with a more aggressive approach to in-store merchandising.
  • Fast motion, like a tennis serve, is no longer jerky.
  • Dark, grainy, jerky, and sloppy, with dated psychedelic camera effects, it struggles for coherency, except in its explicit statements about anti-establishment themes.
  • Unfortunately, though, the sequential changes are tad sloppy on the upshift and slightly jerky on the downshift.
  • Jerome nodded, taking a long strip of jerky from his plate.
  • Take a break from gorp and beef jerky and make lunch on a day hike an epicurean feast.
  • Faith pulled Ben backwards as his movements became jerky and desperate.
  • Fishing out her key, she inserted it in the lock, her movements jerky, the cold finally numbing her muscles.
  • Chengdu old beef jerky is the traditional specialty Chengdu, and five - spice dry Xue Tao ( dried ).
  • The widespread use of overdubbing and the preponderance of drum tracks with herky-jerky tempos and wayward rhythms has become a prominent style in pop and R&B that emphasizes rhythmic agility over vocal expression.
  • The hominid fossil record isn’t even especially “jerky” when examined quantitatvely at fine-scale resolution, so the creationists don’t even have their usual incompetent misconstrual of punctuated equilibria which is actually about morphologically small gaps between closely-related sister species to rely upon. Meet Selam - The Panda's Thumb
  • Robotics experts also have been searching for the right kind of spongy material to mimic muscle tissue and make movements less jerky. Boing Boing: December 22, 2002 - December 28, 2002 Archives
  • Nearly every part of the deer can be made into jerky, but the best cuts are the eye round and rump roast from the hind legs. The Best Way to Cut Venison Jerky
  • With jerky, angry movements he wiped his tears away. Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World: Where the Waters Are Born
  • His skin was dry and hot, his breathing rapid and jerky.
  • Whether she is right in urging sharp, jerky movements in gymnastics is debatable.
  • Biltong, pemmican, jerky, bresaola, Parma ham and bacon are dried meats.
  • I almost added beef jerky, but that was just too costly.
  • We saw strips of deep red beef jerky, sheets of golden-colored glucose that looked like glass, orange rind and salmon skin.
  • Deficiency of GABA outflow, e.g., Huntington's disease, is characterized by herky-jerky and extraneous movements.
  • Bottle feeding the calves that grow up to provide the meat for her beef jerky diet snacks? Times, Sunday Times
  • 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.
  • It worked at cross-purposes, unable to escape the inference of fuddled human personnel and jerky moving parts.
  • They each got two strips of jerky for meals, each about as long as a man's hand and as thick as two fingers.
  • After a rather stunning and disturbing opening sequence, Lumumba really gets going with a disconcertingly sloppy and herky-jerky sequence of biographical background info on our subject.
  • I've let this old carcass get as stiff as beef jerky on a cold winter morning.
  • Shot from behind and from the side, Auteuil gives a steely performance, registering the turmoil of this deeply false character in tiny eye movements and through herky-jerky body language.
  • I yearned for dramatically jerky incidental music. Times, Sunday Times
  • Salmon jerky strips are a staple among the Native Americans and subsistence fishermen in rural outposts such as Tanana, a village of 270 people. Water Conserve: Water Conservation RSS Newsfeed
  • Not knowing which way the scale would tip, and thinking that he might try to steal her hard-earned booty, Dyana stuffed a wad of jerky into her mouth and chewed as best she could.
  • Actions are jerky and the bird hops rather than climbs even when beneath a branch.
  • The road was bumpy, as if sending her heart into jerky movements too.
  • Tremor can be found in multiple sclerosis often with slurred speech and jerky eye movements, called nystagmus.
  • He, along with several other employees, collected beef jerky, gum, shaving cream, shampoo, deodorant, bug spray, sunscreen, DVDs and CDs.
  • In fact, the sobriety, maturity and patience offered a most happy contrast to the herky-jerky behavior of society's supposedly mature ‘opinion makers.’
  • They charged with jerky puppetlike movements and in their hands they clutched heavy clubs and axes. Death Stalks The Ruins
  • She lit a cigarette with quick , jerky movement.
  • The clowder of kitties featured are mischievous, cuddly, jerky, funny, clumsy and, as always, adorably furry.
  • This reproduction does not simulate the jerky movements of a sci-fi automaton, however, but the strange instruments of a science fiction soundtrack.
  • Should the occasion arise, a fruity Gamay Beaujolais or lighter-style Zinfandel contrasts the salty components the jerky.
  • Overall, singletrack touring lends itself to simple food that doesn't require much preparation - gorp mix, beef jerky, pretzel pieces, hard candies, energy gel and sandwiches.
  • On November 22nd 2009, jerkygirl wrote: gilly and gullie video Drew Barrymore on March 2008 Cover of Vogue
  • That opening stutter of the Mars theme is just a musical interpretation of machine guns; you can see the jerky film of the Tommies going over the top, tripping over the barbed wire and being cut down.
  • The exquisite design work and miniature sets, and the jerky marionettes with eerily lifelike physiognomies, never looked better than in these two grand features.
  • As the disorder progresses, a person with Huntington's develops involuntary jerky movements, muscle weakness and clumsiness.
  • We could see jerky motion, and ostrich plumes bobbling atop the helmets.
  • Bang Bang specialty is chicken, beef jerky, dried, fermented bean curd are all better.
  • The throttle pedal is smooth and not at all jerky.
  • Mr Griffin made a jerky gesture.
  • The whiteface, the Keystone Kops moments, the jerky movements, the syncopated line deliveries and Joe Bauer's loud sound effects—coins pouring into a cash register, Tiger Brown's heavy footsteps, the glugs as Mrs. Peachum Traute Hoess swallows her booze—contribute to the old-movie artificiality of the production. Waging Underclass Warfare
  • Native Americans once used the fruit to make pemmican, a type of meat jerky.
  • Then she added some jerky for meat, and some dried vegetables.
  • His skin was dry and hot, his breathing rapid and jerky.
  • They also made a beef jerky over the fire used to distill the local rice drink, kyat. Trying Food in India « Colleen Anderson
  • The slices of deep red sausage had the pungent flavour of barbecued pork, quite similar to a sweet beef jerky.
  • Forced and jerky movements should be avoided, since it is these which cause injury. Shape Your Body, Shape Your Life
  • The asymmetrical rhythms, shifting time signatures and registers, and the once-again intense chromatics jar us back to the herky-jerky puppets as they summon their ersatz dance skills.
  • He is now the chief executive of Sweetwood Cattle Co., which produces steak and beef jerky.
  • His hands shake constantly; throw in his current addictions to coffee and cigars and you get transport that is, at best, fumbling and herky-jerky, at worst, upside down in a ditch, surrounded by flashing lights.
  • A bait rig is a string of very small lures which are lowered to the bottom and raised with short jerky movements.
  • No point guard has as much body control as Payton, able to throw off opponents with his herky-jerky drives forward and sudden stops.
  • It's slow and jerky through the gears. The Sun
  • Wouldn't footage shot from inside somebody's eye be too jerky to enjoy? Times, Sunday Times
  • He was a tall, robustly built person and I felt my arm joints aching after his jerky double hand shake.
  • Though it sounds totally absurd, filet mignon beef jerky just might be the most snackable thing out there.
  • Native Americans once used the fruit to make pemmican, a type of meat jerky.
  • Kat'd brought along some of the jerky, oddments from the previous day's meals, and bottles of water for lunch.
  • The jerky, robotlike workers slaving away belowground like zombies twelve hours a day. Silver Zombie
  • His herky-jerky bow destroyed any semblance of legato, and he could not execute a proper spiccato. In review: Henschel Quartet
  • He made a reasonless, jerky movement with one hand, which told Robina that he was tenser than he appeared. MURDER MOVES IN
  • We climbed up and Nick took two bottles of soda and a bag of beef jerky from his secret stash.
  • During labor it is useful to overcome the great restlessness, fear and excitement experienced by nervous women, and by its calmative power rectifies jerky and ineffectual contractions.
  • Teller : Oh! Hello, Mrs. Jerky. How are you today?
  • There he lived on beer and jerky didn't often speak to people did his shifts as quarry gateman earned enough to stock his cooler didn't ask a lot of questions not the sort to get distracted some might call him simple-minded THE BOATMAN OF THE BADLANDS
  • I enjoyed the concert, although the playing was rather jerky at times.
  • On the contrary, there was something saltatorial and jerky about all the dancing I saw both among the men and women. The First Landing on Wrangel Island With Some Remarks on the Northern Inhabitants
  • The puppets are slightly skew whiff, their movements endearingly jerky, but this only serves to add to the quirky appeal of the film. Times, Sunday Times
  • Give me a kilo of beef jerky.
  • Other favorite dishes include morogo or imifino, a wild leaf stew; bobotie, a minced beef curry; bitlong, which is dried meat similar to jerky; a fried bread called vetkoek; and sosaties, which are made of marinated lamb and apricots.
  • And for the first time it seems to be populated by people, not jerky mimes in pancake makeup.
  • The toy robot moved forward with quick jerky steps.
  • Mike: So many! I like Xijiang raisins, beef jerky, and local pastries.
  • There is also a small selection entitled ‘for the gastronome’, proffering beef jerky, buffalo cheese and a French cheese platter.
  • Thus begins a wheezy, dull little story that follows Clint around as he has annoying conversations with his complainy doctor, jerky cops, and Jeff Daniels.
  • Sat 10/31/09 11: 42 AM theatre version - katie disappears downstairs, screams for micah, who runs down … there is an obvious struggle .. then silence .. then sounds of heavy footsteps coming back upstairs. micah is thrown into the room very suddenly, then katie walks in possessed, all jerky walking, and then lunges at the camera – goes black. 'Paranormal Activity': Three super-scary alternate endings (SPOILER ALERT!) | EW.com
  • Use combinations of moves within a song but avoid jerky movements. Times, Sunday Times
  • The capital was gripped by the imperial government's jerky moves to a new political and economic liberalism. PHYLLOXERA: How Wine was Saved for the World
  • She moves back to the ladder, feeling jerky and uncoordinated. SEA MUSIC
  • The capital was gripped by the imperial government's jerky moves to a new political and economic liberalism. PHYLLOXERA: How Wine was Saved for the World
  • Crash The Party is a shambolic anthem that recalls the jerky, off-kilter energy of Hot Hot Heat in their prime, while there's a warm glow surrounding the slightly more stripped down melodies of the softly-spoken Let It Rain.
  • It was a little herky-jerky, but I've ridden with Jack before, and he was kind of the same way.
  • As he gets down across the half court and approaches the top of the key he begins to go into a series of herky-jerky dribble moves probably either palming and or caring the ball a good half dozen times during his routine.
  • Dallandra clutched the flagon to her chest to keep it from spilling as the cage made its jerky way back up. A TIME OF WAR
  • The younger girl had fallen asleep, curled up in her blanket and still clutching the strip of beef jerky.
  • Last night, before bed, I was combing my daughter's hair and she got away from me, running herky-jerky around the coffee table, laughing like the Fourth of July.
  • In Afghanistan, the networks scrambled to equip their war correspondents with satellite video phones that transmitted shaky, often fuzzy and herky-jerky video images along with the voice reports.
  • Take a break from gorp and beef jerky and make lunch on a day hike a feast.
  • She had shoulder-length gray hair and skin resembling beef jerky.
  • Among the items for sale are beef jerky, Winchester ammunition, and nine kinds of chewing tobacco.
  • His skin was dry and hot, his breathing rapid and jerky.
  • And so the procession started, and for a while discomfort set acutely in, for the movement of a howdah is short and jerky, and it takes some time both to adjust oneself to it and to lose the feeling that the elephant sooner or later -- and probably sooner -- must trip and fall. Roving East and Roving West
  • Powell looked like a ‘stick of beef jerky adorned with whiskers’, and the fundamentally unsuitable boats the men used were ‘walnut shells’.
  • After several more jerky movements, he shot him self like a cannonball at Stone, sending him flying almost into a wall.
  • Focus on keeping your movements smooth and fluid rather than abrupt and jerky.
  • The puppets are slightly skew whiff, their movements endearingly jerky, but this only serves to add to the quirky appeal of the film. Times, Sunday Times
  • The duotones which he pulls out of blurred contrasts of branches against sky, for example, in their jerky linear complexity remind one of ink drawings.
  • I've let this old carcass get as stiff as beef jerky on a cold winter morning.
  • Then your movements become jerky. Times, Sunday Times

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