Sentence examples for has become jumpy from inspiring English sources

He has become jumpy; every approaching vessel might pose a danger.

Investors have become jumpy, says the local branch of the Confederation of British Industry, a lobby group.The riots have not yet threatened the peace process.

Investors have become jumpy about any potential threat to the publisher's balance sheet should the civil cases result in damages payments.

A prominent infectious-disease researcher has discovered just how jumpy the country has become about bioterrorism.

(Sinagra) CYNDI LAUPER (Tuesday) The New Waver Cyndi Lauper has become a visible social activist, while retaining the zany streak that made her jumpy pro-girl pop songs and emotional synthesizer ballads favorites on MTV in the 80's.

The standoff has become a personal battle for the soul of the French right, a contest between Sarkozy's jumpy and divisive personality and Juppé's pipe-and-slippers calm.

Moreover, voters have become less jumpy about the economy.

And at just that point, both the police and university management have become very jumpy.

The first is that the British police and security services have become much jumpier about the Islamist threat.

The more it has looked as if Greece will default messily on all its debt, the jumpier creditors have become about Portugal and no amount of arguments about differences between the two seems to help.Even so, those differences are striking.

Once a simple treat for cops on patrol, coffee and doughnuts have become an elaborate morning ritual for America's jumpy workers.