How To Use Jumpy In A Sentence
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His eyes have a certain amount of little-boy-lost about them and his slightly nervy, jumpy presence also helps him appear a lot younger than his 43 years.
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On a family visit to Windsor Safari Park just to get used to his new car, a jumpy old banger with steering wheel stick-shift gears, Ron was flagged down by a policeman.
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I like the 4th & 5th from the top. and the 3rd from the top too, it reminds me of that Milton Avery waterfall at MoMA but mostly the 4th & 5th: very jumpy and active and "allover" and yet not abstract expressionist.
Art made with a computer
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‘Tuesday Afternoon’ is constantly shifting from gloomy, melancholic folk rock to jumpy, jolly barrelhouse rock, for just a few seconds each.
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She was always jumpy around everyone, rarely ever relaxing her guard.
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Usually I use it to calm my nerves if I'm jumpy for some reason.
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I told myself not to be so jumpy.
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My palms were clammy, I was jumpy, and my parents were standing right behind me.
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When I come across his name on a document it always makes me pause, it gives me pause, the name in jumpy type on some stamped document, James Nicholas Costanza, the raised stamp that marks a thing official, the document in the dusty bottom drawer, the sense of slight confusion until I realize who he is.
Underworld
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Old bird eyes that redbird, jumpy round rough blackbirds who have the sharper eye.
30x30
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He says no, it makes him jumpy.
Tuning the Rig: A Journey to the Arctic
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We can help them talk through the feelings that they have, what they may be experiencing such as sleeplessness, a high level of anxiety, being very jumpy, reliving the experience by having images of what happened.
CNN Transcript Sep 13, 2001
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Of course she would be jumpy, especially if she expected him to kill her.
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The trouble with this particular hang is that it feels jumpy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then the TV glows to life and fills with jumpy, amateur-hour footage of some kind of mass convulsion.
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Not scattery vignettes like you've seen on LJ over the years, or even jumpy bits like are on the website; I plan to write out the whole story, and when it is posted, it will read like novel chapters.
Odin's Day
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The three dozen first-graders were a rowdy and wiggly bunch, almost as jumpy as some of the animals brought out for them to pet.
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The handheld camera and jumpy editing style create a mood of claustrophobia.
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When the film was finally screened last week, it quickly became clear that his jumpy demands and general cussedness have paid off.
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But I was extra jumpy because my mom was in town visiting me at the time.
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I still had that jumpy, energetic feeling I'd had that morning, so I started off at a jog in the direction of Andy's house.
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Some meds would lower his blood pressure but made him feel "jumpy" - not exactly the way you want to feel over a putt.
Projo.com Projo Local News
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I'm not a jumpy person, especially when doorbells ring.
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Then it turned and ran, the camera portraying a jumpy image as the guy ran.
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He is a nervy, jumpy sort of a chap, who follows people with his eyes as they move about a room.
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Until we had moved three of four more stops up the line it was a jumpy, hesitant, tedious process.
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She noticed that some of them were a little jumpy with their hands on the hilt of their swords.
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Excellent, a whole meal of stomach butterflies, jumpy heartbeats, racing pulses, and having to watch my step.
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A hospitable host, full of charm and not jumpy, in spite of the scare.
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The ewes used at The National were loaned by a local grazier and some say they are a bit wild - made jumpy by frequent wild dog attacks in the highlands of Australia.
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The script is remarkably similar which means there are too many very very short scenes which of course work brilliantly on film but here everything just feels jumpy and unfinished.
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He says that since starting the job he is less jumpy and no longer afraid of the dark.
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In the pen are two jumpy little miniatures.
Times, Sunday Times
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He is smoking his last cigarette and looks strangely jumpy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Fear makes people jumpy and apprehensive, and more apt to resort to violence.
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The picture is also jumpy and unfocused at times, which also lends credence to the high-resolution argument.
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Kathleen winced as his temper rose; she was jumpy and nervous now because of his actions but once again surprised at his words.
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By widening his stance, Jones has improved his balance, enabling him to be less jumpy and more selective.
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One unemployed person shared with me the fact that they were afraid the nervousness would show in an interview and then should he be hired, he fears he will be "jumpy," and an employer may think they hired the wrong guy.
Nation's jobless rate drops
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She described Mr Hutchinson as nervous and jumpy after his wife's disappearance.
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Skip the tinsel, or move it to a high spot on your tree where your cats and dogs can't get them, warns. Put fragile ornaments at the tip-top of your tree, too, in case jumpy pets try to get to them.
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She was a nervous, highly strung and jumpy individual.
Times, Sunday Times
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And she's as jumpy as a sack full of rabbits, while running around Britain's Most Haunted Houses - the night vision picking up every squeal, nervous tic and judder that she can give out.
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She was a nervous, highly strung and jumpy individual.
Times, Sunday Times
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A hospitable host, full of charm and not jumpy, in spite of the scare.
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There must be more relaxing ways to reach the last eight, but via their third bumpy, jumpy display in a row, France finally got there last night.
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I'll admit that I was more than a little jumpy as I made my way through this gauntlet of jimsonweed and Huggies, but as I grew closer and began to make out the outline of the bunker's entrance, I heard music, faintly at first, but growing louder with each footstep until I finally recognized it as ABBA's Waterloo.
Live blogging for Lieberman or how Bill Kristol saved my life
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I couldn't sit still, I was jumpy and anxious especially about meeting Erica.
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In fact, he has become jumpy.
Times, Sunday Times
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The very fact that they had never endured a blitz or an invasion seemed to account for the obsessive fears of a nation always irrationally jumpy about its own security.
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*smirk* - my word verification is ojmpyy. which sounds like "oh jumpy". which is smirkable when you know that in scotland, a jumpy is a shag
The Ugly Truth
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It was not the tipsy singing she had heard in the morning; it was jumpy, tuneless singing; she guessed that it was assisting in the process of shaving, for she heard a few "damns" peppering the song, which suggested that his shaky hand was wielding the razor badly.
Captivity
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That day, Sebastien had been feeling anxious and jumpy all day long.
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I was jumpy, but in a good mood for the first time that week.
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We were so jumpy, we scooted off to wait outside instead.
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He was jumpy and apprehensive, and most likely wouldn't have been able to hit anything even surrounding the small oracle if pressed to.
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And liquid CO2 has an unusual quality: It's very jumpy, almost jiggly.
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It creates a jumpy, insecure, self-doubting person.
Times, Sunday Times
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I'm usually a light sleeper in unfamiliar situations, so it's not surprising that I would be a little jumpy.
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He was so jumpy at every sound he thought he'd overdose on adrenaline.
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You obviously had a bad night, you fell asleep with a gun in your hand, and you're jumpy as all get-out.
FOLLY
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That's the message from the arts world, and Downing Street must judge whether it's just a few jumpy luvvies or the revealing response of people whose job is to anticipate and satisfy the public's mood.
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He took nervous infants of nervous mothers — babies who in standardized newborn testing were already jumpy themselves — and gave them to especially nurturing “supermoms.”
The Science of Success
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One IS jumpy when soft-nosed bullets putt-putt around him.
CHAPTER XLVII
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She was a nervous, highly strung and jumpy individual.
Times, Sunday Times
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Smoothly steering between R&B and Eurodance, she's breathily seductive on Motivation – by contrast, guest Lil Wayne is positively anaemic – while I'm Dat Chick updates the jumpy minimalism of Destiny's Child's No, No, No.
Kelly Rowland: Here I Am – review
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You feel jumpy and emotional and those great rolling waves of nostalgia you're trying to suppress are washing over you like waves on a beach.
The Sun
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He didn't know why he was so jumpy lately, every little thing scared him.
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She was a nervous, highly strung and jumpy individual.
Times, Sunday Times
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Elsewhere, the jumpy ‘Bridges, Squares’ fuses arena-ready power pop with a distinctly punky stomp that thoughtfully belies the sugary vocals.
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Had she been so jumpy and frightened in the empty black school that her mind invented the noise as a way to torture her even more?
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He says that since starting the job he is less jumpy and no longer afraid of the dark.
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Slightly jumpy, Michael peered into a mirror and tousled his hair, constantly shifting his weight.
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Too much sensitivity will make the lights too jumpy, which increases driver strain.
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They were very jumpy about anything like that happening again, so I didn't believe for a second that they'd let 50 cultists that close to the city just get on with business unwatched.
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He is heavily medicated and his jumpy behaviour has caused most inmates to stay away from him.
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But I recovered quickly and over the years have become less jumpy.
Times, Sunday Times
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I'm described as jumpy, and it's an accurate description.
Elfpvke Diary Entry
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I want to be able to talk to him and act like I normally do around my friends ... lolz ... like not being all jumpy or shifty.
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‘I can't believe you're so jumpy about where I'm coming from and what my angle is,’ I snap.
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Marjorie was busy and jumpy, a jingler of change and a tapper of toes, which made it pretty rich that she called Uncle Glen hyper.
VQR
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He said it was tense on board, people were jumpy and nerves were taut.
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You obviously had a bad night, you fell asleep with a gun in your hand, and you're jumpy as all get-out.
FOLLY
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We stayed in Bali for about six weeks after the bomb and I was very jumpy.
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He was jumpy, impatient; both things Mikey had never been in his life.
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He was more jumpy than I was and he kept checking his watch.
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She was constantly jumpy whenever someone mentioned my mother, and we eventually stopped hanging around each other.
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And, there are a large variety of such inflatables, including owl, ferocious looking tiger, jumpy kangaroos, and other members of their kingdom.
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Some functions are really "jumpy" - and they might differ on an infinitesimal-by-infinitesimal level.
BetterExplained
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He is a nervy, jumpy sort of a chap, who follows people with his eyes as they move about a room, and he is constantly twitching about, seeking approval and trying to be everyone's mom.
