Sentence examples for gets jumpy from inspiring English sources

When a perceived oddity is backed by Mormon money or growing political clout, the left gets jumpy.

Warm and animated, quick to laugh, she chatters so freely that her publicist gets jumpy and tells her to lower her voice.

"When the road gets rough and the sky gets jumpy and the stars start falling on top of your head and the waves start breaking against your legs," the announcer continues, "it's the thread in your seams that's tied to your dreams".

Evans, the son of Welsh Methodists, refusing to look Irving in the eye, often wincing with irritation, and speaking in the nasal monotone of the outer London suburbs, came across as the kind of state-educated Briton who gets jumpy at the sound of an upper-class voice — or, as the English say, "chippy".

On broken pavement, especially, the big Q feels darty, and although the steering is very precise great for arcs of freshly paved blacktop –it gets jumpy when road conditions degrade.

When the right prefrontal cortex gets jumpy, it indicates, in this experiment, instinctive revulsion to an obnoxious, tongue-wagging character who pops up in a commercial for Carling beer.

"I get jumpy".

Are they getting jumpy?

Win was starting to get jumpy himself.

With big debt payments looming, Tyco's bankers got jumpy.

Officers can get jumpy and shoot unnecessarily, or accidentally.