Sentence examples for getting jumpy from inspiring English sources

Are they getting jumpy?

Police had been annoying us all day and everybody was getting jumpy.

"Instead of getting jumpy he held on to it and made a great shot".

Rafe later testified, "There were helicopters flying around, and everyone was getting jumpy about having the girl".

If they were getting jumpy about Munster's momentum then the arrival of the rain would not have helped them.

But, with no funds having yet been paid over by the proposed purchaser, the offshore vehicle Bishop International Limited, it is understood Priestley is getting jumpy over the potential liability his firm may face over deferred player wages if the BIL's bid goes awry.

He used to make time run forward, backward and at a 30-degree angle to the horizon all at once -- but since the mid-1980's, while almost everyone else has been getting jumpier, Mr. Resnais has favored a smoother artifice.

Compare that with the past volatility;plus your hunch about whether the stock will be getting jumpier or less jumpy to get a sense of whether the option is cheap right now.

"I get jumpy".

It gets jumpy.

Win was starting to get jumpy himself.