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Ryan asks the jittery Brett "How badly do you want this?" and he replies jumpily, "I want this so badly but I'm numb right now."

'American Idol' 2011: Lucky 13 [Updated w/ Poll] 2011

But mostly there were goofy songs, jumpily edited dance sequences and the least scary game of chicken involving two super-slow tractors in the history of cinema.

Michael Giltz: DVDs: 1939 -- Still Hollywood's Greatest Year Michael Giltz 2011

In so doing, I gulped a heaping cup of coffee and wound up jumpily awake until an ungodly enough hour to catch the third (Why?) showing of Chris Matthews '“Hardball” program.

Archive 2008-01-01 2008

I concentrate on the swirls as the plane begins to hurtle towards a hedge like a dirt bike with wings, jumpily gathering speed for lift-off, the grass around us blowing smooth and flat.

The art of aerobatic wing walking 2010

France's president, in his thoughts and actions, is jumpily unpredictable, playing opera seria and opera buffa in turn.

Lord Weidenfeld of Chelsea: 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Wall 2009

The scenes with the small spiders climbing over Reggie had me brushing my arms and jumpily checking my body for spiders long after I had read the scene.

Book Chick City Book Chick City 2009

 Telling herself to try and relax, Sophie knew there was fat chance of any such thing if she continued to react as jumpily as a cat walking on burning coals around him.

Mistress On Demand Cox, Maggie 2005

He knew he had work of a sort: at one time he was bringing food to gaunt-eyed tickler-mounted humans working feverishly in a production line -- human hands and tickler claws working together in a blur of rapidity on silvery mechanisms that moved along jumpily on a great belt; at another he was sweeping piles of metal scraps and garbage down a gray corridor.

The Creature from Cleveland Depths Fritz Leiber 1951

The compass was oscillating less jumpily, and it was now possible to see some distance ahead.

Round the World in Seven Days Herbert Strang

Then it was away, moving jumpily with its half-wrecked side tubes, but nevertheless escaping.

The Devil's Asteroid Manly Wade Wellman 1944