jerkily

• “I'm going to kind of jerkily move this out and you can begin to see where that town of Caledonia is.”

  CNN Transcript Jan 10, 2008

• “Or rather, I think of him like that kind of jerkily sexist 22-year-old of whom one thinks,”

  Jacob T. Levy

• “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.”

  Simon & Schuster: Live and Let Love

• “And at the rate of ten knots, buffeted and jerkily rolled, the”

  THE PEARLS OF PARLAY

• “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.””

  Simon & Schuster: The Return

• “Sula drags the guitar pick up and down, up and down, faster and faster, her hand strumming jerkily, without care for rhythm or melody.”

  Fictionaut: Guitar Lessons

• “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

• “If the reel hesitates or descends jerkily, your drag needs work.”

  The Home Drag Test

• “He's like a machine with a handle, that you turn and a previously prepared line comes out – a bit jerkily, like a musical box, because it's hard to turn the handle at a constant speed, but the joke comes out eventually.”

  The Guardian: TV review: Young Apprentice

• “Tychus gripped the belt holding Jim with his left arm and used the right to climb, jerkily and one-handed, up the ladders.”

  Simon & Schuster: Starcraft II: Devils’ Due

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