How To Use Jittery In A Sentence

  • She'd married young, to a cordwainer's apprentice with a clubfoot and jittery laugh, named Ephraim Bennet.
  • Although the bank has made reassuring noises, investors remain jittery. Times, Sunday Times
  • Gord stood nearby in jittery indecision — encouraged by hunger, restrained by fear. 1977, part 2: The Lord of the Rinky-Dink
  • All ears are going to be on that Flying Lotus version, fluctuating between flashes of darkcore inspirations and jittery junglist flex-outs, sounding like he's added a healthy dose of Steve Gurley to his recent listening habits after the Burial inflections of recent works. Boomkat: Just arrived
  • The heavier guitar riff which underlies this jittery paced indie rock track makes it one of the band's strongest releases in a while. The Sun
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  • So what I have here is kind of pointillist and jittery, little glimpses of characters doing things. There is a crack in everything. that's how the light gets in.
  • Big companies have become jittery at the very moment India needs foreign investment to help with its soaring current account deficit. Times, Sunday Times
  • Research has shown even casual smoking during pregnancy can make newborn babies jittery, more excitable and more difficult to console than babies born to non-smokers.
  • Not just in a figure of speech kind of way, but genuinely in love - jittery in its presence, pining during its absence, utterly fulfilled and completed during the time you spend with it?
  • Abby starts to get very nervous and jittery and says that Tituba is the one responsible for all of this.
  • Jamaica's musical past goes far beyond reggae: There's the warm rhythms of mento, the sweet sway of calypso, the jittery jump of ska.
  • a jittery ride
  • The thirty - six Enterprise divebombers were being squandered in a jittery shot from the hip.
  • Heavy, blackout material, I noted, and glanced around, no less jittery now that I could see. NIGHT SISTERS
  • International investors have become jittery about the country's economy.
  • Nonetheless, senior Conservatives have become jittery. Times, Sunday Times
  • His joy and happiness had vanished in that instant; his jittery, excited spirit was gone.
  • I get really jittery if I drink too much coffee.
  • But too much caffeine - and therefore adrenalin - can make you feel jittery. The Sun
  • Still haunted by what he saw, he becomes jittery at the sound of a passing motorbike. Times, Sunday Times
  • Now things are looking jittery. Times, Sunday Times
  • International investors have become jittery about the country's economy.
  • In the jittery start both sides were guilty of handling errors but Keighley had the best of the early play.
  • You're jittery, and shaky, and always seem slightly nervous about something.
  • Already jittery on energy drink and party pills, they are sensibly refraining from drinking alcohol to ensure that they will be vertical for the big final act.
  • Nonetheless, senior Conservatives have become jittery. Times, Sunday Times
  • It is precisely the bill's vaulting ambition that makes many critics jittery. Times, Sunday Times
  • Heavy, blackout material, I noted, and glanced around, no less jittery now that I could see. NIGHT SISTERS
  • They are named "JitterBugs," for both the way they transmit stolen data in "jittery" chunks and for the "jitters" they could inspire in anyone with secure data to safeguard. After me comes a builder.
  • It's a surprisingly open statement from a man with the mien of a detached observer, but the band were always about contradictions: irony and sincerity, artful contrivance and warmth, jittery neurosis and celebratory groove.
  • Despite such bravado, oil prices rose to near-record highs in trading as jittery markets reacted to the alert.
  • Stories of other children succumbing would turn me into a jittery nervous wreck.
  • Altogether an unimpressive performance - looked jittery from the start and did not play with confidence or purpose. Red Line Report by Kyle Woodlief
  • She was all jittery and her mind was racing ahead of her.
  • The personalities were also altered: the Scarecrow was intensely accident-prone but strangely indifferent to his bumbling, the heartless Tin Man was aggressively rude and insensitive to others and the Lion, although still jittery when facing real and perceived threat, is often more of a fussbudget than a brazen sissy. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
  • Fred Gunter, owner of Exkursion, said the call alarmed him and his wife, because they still are jittery about the fire 11 years ago. Post-gazette.com - News
  • Investors were getting jittery, and some were downright panicky.
  • The short and jittery teacher was always twiddling his hands annoyingly, stuttering when he spoke and nervously rocking back and forth, as he stood.
  • Tang has asked the public to put up with a jittery stock market while his government cracks down on illicit dealings among politicians and businessmen.
  • In today's jittery markets, good news on one front can have surprisingly bad effects elsewhere.
  • Objectively, he is emotionally labile and becomes jittery and nervous when discussing the ring.
  • The answers vary enormously and some are worrying jittery investors. Times, Sunday Times
  • Sea-anglers dot the foreshore, their rods like the jittery feelers of crayfish or the dials of a Geiger counter.
  • They were jittery now and reacted nervously to any movement around their dugouts.
  • She was very jittery, far more jittery than Lydie had ever seen the mannerly, dignified Anne Holden.
  • ‘Room Tone’ bucks the dualistic bent of its five predecessors by retaining a jittery hum that is continually haloed by the digital equivalent of the plastic flash that had to be cut away from Airfix kit parts before assembly.
  • Perhaps she was beyond feeling jittery. Times, Sunday Times
  • If you find you're getting jittery or having trouble sleeping at night, cut back or switch to decaf versions.
  • He looked increasingly jittery as the series went on. Times, Sunday Times
  • They were jittery now and reacted nervously to any movement around their dugouts.
  • That can make people feel more jittery when they smoke it. Times, Sunday Times
  • Jittery investors dumped it as a result, sending its shares down 5.6 per cent.
  • The less-than-panicky call it jittery response by world markets on Monday to debt-talk failures has strengthened the right-wing argument that a default is no catastrophe. Craig Crawford: Y2K Syndrome Infects Debt Debate
  • When foreigners start to get really jittery about the war, they'll be trading in their euros, yen, rubles, and rupees and whatnots for solid, US dollars.
  • One jittery grunt comes close to bayoneting a prisoner before being stopped by fellow Marines.
  • She takes herself off to visit a nervous and jittery Sally, who is beginning to feel like a prisoner in her own home.
  • Investors are increasingly jittery as a period of volatility is likely, regardless of the outcome. Times, Sunday Times
  • The election campaign got off to a jittery start.
  • This made me jittery, fidgety, wired, and slightly more insane than usual.
  • The technology was so named because it transmits stolen data in jittery chunks — by adding nearly imperceptible processing delays after a keystroke, and for the jitters such a bug could inspire in anyone with secure data to safeguard. JitterBugs: A New Computer Threat | Impact Lab
  • Understandably, the next lot to qualify felt very jittery so they looked elsewhere before we advertised our jobs. Times, Sunday Times
  • Central Office at the moment is a nervous, jittery, uneasy place.
  • He was close to a breakdown by January 1943, and his weak performance briefing the Com bined Chiefs of Staff at the Casablanca conference — Roosevelt thought him "jittery" — nearly led to his resignation. Eisenhower's Pit Bull
  • He has succeeding in "seeling" his moral vision — sewing his eyelids shut, as falconers did to tame their jittery birds — so that even the most spectacular signs and wonders leave him indifferent. In the Night Kitchen
  • The board, no less afflicted than the fans, become jittery. Times, Sunday Times
  • Warp speed, back to the sounds of 80's pop and those jittery keyboard blips!
  • Heavy, blackout material, I noted, and glanced around, no less jittery now that I could see. NIGHT SISTERS
  • It was probably the tension that made him jittery.
  • I get really jittery if I drink too much coffee.
  • There I was sitting in my chair, jittery with adrenaline and close to peeing my pants, fearful of the imposing figure in the center of the room.
  • Although markets were jittery during the day as votes in the key state of Ohio were counted, stocks were buoyed after Mr Kerry conceded defeat.
  • The show opened as a surreal oasis of calm and culture in a tense and jittery city. Times, Sunday Times
  • His natural demeanor can seem a tad tepid, but at least he's not trying to be a jittery homespun Hepburn like his famous co-star.
  • The centre of defence is a case in point: John Terry and Branislav Ivanovic looked slow, weak and jittery as Grant Holt outmuscled and even outmanoeuvred them at Stamford Bridge, just as Alex had been bullied off the ball by Shane Long for West Bromwich's goal the previous week. Chelsea in need of rejuvenation despite flattering defeat of Norwich
  • In addition his is always jittery, nervous and panicky, always worried, always tense, never able to relax.
  • Enter the burglars, led by the scary, skeevy Ben Mendelsohn Animal Kingdom, a group that also includes the growly Dash Mihok and the jittery Cam Gigandet. Marshall Fine: Movie Review: Trespass
  • The trio treats their jittery dance-punk like a mad science experiment, haphazardly fusing club-ready basslines with uncomely electronic raucousness.
  • Barack Obama, our next likely president -- disregarding morbid Doris Lessing-esque poo-pooers, or a jittery electorate overcome with a necrophilic hunger only a bespotted failed war "hero" can slake -- is full of it. David Matthews: Obama is full of it. Hope, I mean.
  • I would feel depressed and jittery. The Sun
  • He is an unsettled, jittery man who mostly speaks in fragmented sentences because his mind is like a chess board, it is always working on several things at a time and it is most often a few steps ahead of his conscious ability to recognize what his mind is doing. Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » “How can I make a character with mental disorders work?”
  • It misjudged how jittery insurance shareholders already were. Times, Sunday Times
  • Feeling jittery all the time? The Sun
  • UK Government bonds tracked their German counterparts higher as jittery investors sought safer homes for their money. Times, Sunday Times
  • Mitchell's voice has been transformed by age and cigarettes from the flutey, jittery soprano of her youth, to a weary, grainy alto.
  • Caffeine makes me jittery, so I prefer decaffeinated tea.
  • Conveniently – perhaps ominously – Selena’s blueblood employers are nowhere to be found, and their estate’s jittery caretaker raises hackles. Bones by Jonathan Kellerman: Book summary
  • There is a strong temptation for jittery investors to cash in their chips. Times, Sunday Times
  • 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
  • And even when we're not literally getting taped on an I-phone or video, we've by now internalized the wary, jittery, self-censoring instincts that the panoptical of our age promotes, and that cripple our bullshit capacities. Pamela Haag, Ph.D.: The Bullshit Paradox
  • His natural demeanor can seem a tad tepid, but at least he's not trying to be a jittery homespun Hepburn like his famous co-star.
  • Though the songs have all the jittery energy and dance beats that make bank these days, hooks are absent, replaced by trebly guitar screech and electronic howls.
  • Dancing happened everywhere, even overhead in a technician's glassed-in booth, often with a jittery intensity that turned the simplest movement phrases into gibberish.
  • The heavier guitar riff which underlies this jittery paced indie rock track makes it one of the band's strongest releases in a while. The Sun
  • PC Dunn suggested that the appellant's demeanour was jittery and very uneasy.
  • This mix makes for a short term jittery market and certainly a flexible approach will remain. FXstreet.com
  • In addition, he has repeatedly made threats to shoot so that the Bremen goal jittery.

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