JERK in a Sentence

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123 example sentences for JERK, such as:

1. When I approached, it vanished with a jerk.
2. He carefully jerked a big fish out of water.
3. Giles nicked his chair into position with a jerk.
4. We saw him turn the handle and jerk the door open.
5. He was suddenly jerked off his feet and borne aloft.

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 Meanings and Examples of JERK
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
jerk
 v.  pull, or move with a sudden movement; move with abrupt, seemingly uncontrolled motions
Classic Sentence: (113 in 8 pages)
1  Giles nicked his chair into position with a jerk.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 4
2  How tempting, how very tempting, to let the view triumph; to reflect its ripple; to let their own minds ripple; to let outlines elongate and pitch over--so--with a sudden jerk.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 5
3  He rose with a jerk, like a toy suddenly pulled straight by a string.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 5
4  It twitched her limbs when she didn't want to twitch them, it jerked her spine when she didn't want to jerk upright but preferred to rest comfortably.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
5  He gave a curious backward jerk of his head, indicating the outer world.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
6  Then he put her in gear with a jerk, having jerked off his brake.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
7  There was a sudden jerk, a terrific convulsion of the limbs; and there he hung, with the open knife clenched in his stiffening hand.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER L
8  Clym ran to her side, and found he could only check the rope by twisting the loose part round the upright post, when it stopped with a jerk.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 3 The First Act in a Timeworn Drama
9  When I approached, it vanished with a jerk.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. The Adventure of The Yellow Face
10  When the subject of this instinctive trust returned to the table and sat down Mr. Wolfshiem drank his coffee with a jerk and got to his feet.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
11  His eyes would drop slowly from the swinging light to the laden table by the wall and then jerk back to the light again and he gave out incessantly his high horrible call.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
12  Presently Tom lifted his head with a jerk and after staring around the garage with glazed eyes addressed a mumbled incoherent remark to the policeman.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
13  Saying this, with a jerk of his body, which might have been either propitiatory or derisive, he fell into step beside me.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 39. WICKFIELD AND HEEP
14  Her first impulse was to jerk back her hand from the damp hand with big swollen veins that sought hers, but with an obvious effort to control herself she pressed his hand.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 19
15  Small Carreen could have cried because, for all Scarlett's encouraging words that morning, Brent had done no more than say "Hello, Sis" and jerk her hair ribbon before turning his full attention to Scarlett.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
Example Sentence:
1  The train stopped with a violent jerk, nearly tipping me out of my bunk.
2  We saw him turn the handle and jerk the door open.
3  Tina seemed to rue the night she met Tony and wondered how she ever fell for such a jerk.
4  The train stopped with a violent jerk , nearly tipping me out of my bunk.
5  The animal lay on the ground, its whole body twitching and jerking.
6  He carefully jerked a big fish out of water.
7  Wilcox jerked his head to indicate that they should move on.
8  Edward jerked open the door, interposing himself so that they should not stare.
9  He was suddenly jerked off his feet and borne aloft.
10  The car made a strange noise and then jerked to a halt.