Sentence examples for Jerk from inspiring English sources
The word "jerk" is correct and usable in written English
It is typically used to describe someone who is rude, obnoxious, or inconsiderate. Example: "John was such a jerk at the party last night, constantly interrupting people and making offensive jokes."
noun
A sudden, often uncontrolled movement, especially of the body.
Dinner could be jerk pork chop with black beans, followed by local black pineapple, grilled and served with rum and raisin ice-cream.
For a typical antihero jerk, Bosch isn't so bad, and Welliver plays him with a velvet growl that somehow is welcoming even as we realise what a giant mess his personal life (or what there is of it) is.
4 Serve with some mango chutney or a cooling, sour cream dip to combat the heat of the jerk seasoning.
We have the conflicted jerk of a lawman with a haunted past.
Isn't the eponymous physician a pill-popping, misanthropic jerk with off-putting googly eyes and bedside manner as soothing as a 3am phone call from Stalin?
Instead, let me take you back to the Barrios in 1932, where I used to jerk myself off into a sperm-spotted handkerchief, while thinking of my mother.
The US media has a knee-jerk 'RED CHINA!' reaction to anything involving HK or the PRC, and is intended to distract from the issue of US government misconduct.
Beyond the immediate knee-jerk responses, though, Scott appears to have designed a pair of trainers that actually carry a deep social statement about the enslaving nature of consumerism.
"There is a serious risk of pandering to knee-jerk xenophobia," he said.
The Gulf Centre for Human Rights has said of Oman: "Torture has become the state's knee-jerk response to political expression".
It also fed into a knee-jerk Anglophobia.
