Sentence examples for a jumpy one from inspiring English sources

It is easy, he said, to get a rectal temperature from a downed cow but hard from a jumpy one.

When De Martino recalls the farrago in Berlin ("The label learned quickly, leave us to get on with it, because when we get pressured…") he sounds like a hostage-taker, a jumpy one who's just placated the encircling police for another hour by sending out an ear.

Under Mr. Thompson's guidance, this is not a gradual transformation but a jumpy one.

In a sense the National Museum of the American Indian is itself an extended installation, though a confused and jumpy one, chopped up with vitrines, benches, partitions, texts, touch screens and so on.

In general the compositions were intricate under the hood, as in one sludgy riff that oscillated metrically between 11/8 and 15/8, before settling on a jumpy ostinato in 12.

MTV delivered not just new music, constantly on tap, but also a jumpy new visual aesthetic.

If so, that's one alarmingly delicate bird we're dealing with – a jumpy, neurotic creature that is probably better off being ignored altogether.

Drake is a jumpy performer.

He was a jumpy 5-foot-4 blast furnace.

"I'm a jumpy guy, to say the least," Snedeker said.

A jumpy club remix of "It Ain't Necessarily So" played over the sound system.