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Discover LudwigThe phrase "feel jerky" is not correct and is not used in written English.
Instead, you could use a phrase such as "feel awkward" or "feel clumsy" to express a similar feeling. For example: I felt awkward during the presentation; my voice kept trembling and my hands felt jerky.
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Some of the unevenness of the first season — writing that didn't always land and plotting that could feel jerky — feels smoother this time around, though still with occasional moments of faltering.
The objective is to make the car's driving seem natural, to integrate well with other cars, and not feel jerky or hesitant.
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An attempt at an evocative effect by Jill Nagle, the lighting designer, bouncing quickly back and forth between two areas of the stage, just feels physically jerky instead.
I tried many others and consistently found them to feel much more jerky, wobbly, and unpredictable.
It's worth an extra few minutes in line for the porta-johns to not feel like beef jerky the next day, right?
The Daily News David Hinckley shared Goldman's concerns about resetting the characters, and while he believed that doing so was the right long-term move, he commented that: "the immediate effect is to make the episode feel a little jerky".
We saw that in the 2008 campaign, and we did not see it in the first presidential debate where he seemed hesitant and his sentences sometimes felt herky-jerky.
The regenerative braking system feels a bit jerky.
When news of Dale Earnhardt's fatal crash in the Daytona 500 two weeks ago reached her husband's ship, a sailor on his watch chewed on his home-cured deer jerky and said, "I feel like Superman has died".
The national conversation feels distinctly knee-jerky, and scape-goats can come easier to some than real reflection.
Remember that sometimes, when people are acting really jerky, they do that because they feel bad about themselves or something that's happening in their life.
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