jerked

Meaning

of Jerk

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Phrases with the word

Examples

He was staring straight ahead, still breathing hard. "I have something I want to give you.” "I gathered that.” At that he jerked his gaze back to hers and almost reluctantly grinned. "Not that. Cassandra Clare

Then she tried to show me how to hold the gun. I jerked it away from her, flung the barrel recklessly in all directions. John Fante

She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me. Raymond Chandler

No one would choose to be jerked randomly off task again and again until you have half a dozen things you're trying to get done, all at the same time. Marilyn vos Savant

[Roland] jerked back too fast to see, and his fist was suddenly connecting with my chin. I didn't pass out, but my body went limp. Part of me was screaming silently. The other part was saying, 'Oh, what pretty trees. Laurell K. Hamilton

the roads lay under us in white quilts the telegraph-wires jerked tight and wrote mantras on the sky. Lajos Kassák