Sentence examples for as a jumpy from inspiring English sources

Nicolas Sarkozy is trying to reverse his spiraling fortunes by shaking off his old reputation as a jumpy and flashy Hot Rabbit and recasting himself as a sober and quiet family man.

And although Eli Gelb gives a persuasive physical portrayal of Eugene as a jumpy, awkward boy who hasn't quite grown into his 15-year-old body, his artificial speech patterns turn his dialogue into a kind of ornate pidgin.

Although this third installment is a prequel set years before those earlier shockers, which involved the haunted Lambert family (not returning here), it stands well on its own as a jumpy spookfest.

VETERAN investors know that, in a stock market as jumpy as this one, limit orders are the only way to trade.

Anonymous Sounds as if Big Daddy likes control, or keeping you as jumpy as cats on a hot tin roof.

Plenty of times, he was cooing and grunting as the band vamped over a jumpy merengue arrangement.

Moving among monitors standing in threes on chest-high pedestals causes a jumpy, anxious feeling as you try to figure out whether there is a meaningful order.

But as the half-empty streets around him showed, in a jumpy time, even discredited rumours have real consequences.(Photo credit: David Rennie).

Despite a jumpy camera and "Deadwood -inspired music, "Poster Boy" isn't nearly as eDeadwood -inspiredt is.

Built in 1811, Castle Clinton is a squat red sandstone fort that has been an aquarium, an immigration center, and an opera house, and its history is almost as jumpy as the performance style of Chan Marshall herself.

Imagine, for a moment, if a jumpy security guard had regarded the approaching figure as a threat and responded with serious force?