Definitions
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- adverb In a
jerky manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb with jerking motions
- adverb with spasms
Etymologies
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Examples
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I'm going to kind of jerkily move this out and you can begin to see where that town of Caledonia is.
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Or rather, I think of him like that kind of jerkily sexist 22-year-old of whom one thinks,
Jacob T. Levy 2008
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She saw before her only a boy, who was shaking her hand with a hand so calloused that it felt like a nutmeg-grater and rasped her skin, and who was saying jerkily: — The greatest time of my life.
Chapter 2 2010
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And at the rate of ten knots, buffeted and jerkily rolled, the
THE PEARLS OF PARLAY 2010
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If the reel hesitates or descends jerkily, your drag needs work.
The Home Drag Test 2009
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Sula drags the guitar pick up and down, up and down, faster and faster, her hand strumming jerkily, without care for rhythm or melody.
Guitar Lessons Dallas Woodburn 2011
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I eventually managed to jerkily creep out onto the street by keeping the parking brake engaged until I gunned the gas and lurched forward into drive.
Live and Let Love Andrea Buchanan 2011
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In August 1994, Yeltsin, in Berlin to mark the withdrawal of Russian troops from Germany, drank too many glasses of champagne, and on a whim grabbed the baton and jerkily conducted a police band before breaking into a chorus of the folk song “Kalinka.”
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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I eventually managed to jerkily creep out onto the street by keeping the parking brake engaged until I gunned the gas and lurched forward into drive.
Live and Let Love Andrea Buchanan 2011
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In August 1994, Yeltsin, in Berlin to mark the withdrawal of Russian troops from Germany, drank too many glasses of champagne, and on a whim grabbed the baton and jerkily conducted a police band before breaking into a chorus of the folk song “Kalinka.”
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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