An abrupt spasmodic movement.
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Examples for "jerk "
Examples for "jerk "
1 I believe he was bruised with the fall; the jerk was violent.
2 Said one, indicating the laughing general with a jerk of the head:
3 The only answer was the jerk and dip of the retreating oars.
4 There was immediately a jerk in the hat, and then it disappeared.
5 It's been criticised as a knee - jerk reaction to recently publicised racism incidents.
1 You might need another jolt of caffeine, because we need to talk.
2 However, the development will be a major jolt to the shadow cabinet.
3 I found out later I was lucky that that second jolt happened.
4 Still, the entire world had been given a severe jolt ... View Article
5 And this result must jolt them into a rediscovery of their roots.
1 The timing of saccade termination was strongly linked to hand movement kinematics.
2 Multiple sclerosis participants underwent a clinical assessment and saccade and antisaccade testing paradigms.
3 Differential activity of movement-related but not visual neurons could distinguish whether a saccade occurred.
4 In both saccade and key-press tasks, removing the visible fixation strongly quickened the responses.
5 Seventeen healthy subjects underwent structural MRI and infra-red oculographic assessment of a reflexive saccade task.
1 Soon my body started jerking about in an unexpected and unfamilar way.
2 Reverse the exercise, jerking the shoulders backward in similar manner while inhaling.
3 I felt my body shuddering and jerking with the power of it.
4 The camera made a jerking motion left as it redirected its aim.
5 The men were engaged in hunting and jerking deer and elk meat.
6 That jerking motion Elizabeth had made at the moment Sandels had vanished.
7 Except her twitching, jerking body kept her awake on the cold floor.
8 He felt slight jerking motions as the computer adjusted speed and direction.
9 The jerking motion was actually the carriage jolting over the track joins.
10 It's like jerking down the mercury in a thermometer: just a trick.
11 Adam isn't jerking anymore, but he doesn't appear to be conscious, either.
12 He hurried forward along the heaving, jerking deck to the main hatchway.
13 A small amount of jerking up and kicking back made little difference.
14 She stood in silence, her heart jerking on again with wild palpitations.
15 Watto stopped laughing instantly, jerking away as if scalded by hot oil.
16 Suddenly, he let go of her, jerking back like he'd been shocked.
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