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Meanings of jerked along in English

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Usage of jerked along in English
1
Mark was suddenly jerked along the floor by his leg.
The Kill Order
2
The chair jerked along with him hanging by his neck, his arms at his side.
Love at first sight
3
The salesman jerked along beside him unhappily.
Oh, You Tex!
4
Traffic jerked along in fits and starts.
Eros, philia, agape
5
They rode in the caboose, the small red cupola-topped car jerked along at the end of the train.
Main Street
6
But the corpse's grip held on Wynn's cowl, and she was jerked along, spinning around to fall backward to the earth.
Sister of the dead
7
They were mostly yellow with some black, and they sang something like Canaries, and when they flew they sort of jerked along.
Citizen Bird: Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginne...
8
The horse and the two persons made a black, distorted shadow that jerked along as though it were a thing evil and persistent.
The Sleuth of St. James's Square
9
I remember coming to myself for an instant, and it seemed that we were being jerked along at the rate of a gunshot.
The Land of the Changing Sun
10
Evening came, then night, and still the party was jerked along at the tail of the train without a hint as to its destination.
Rainbow's End
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