Sentence examples for have jumpy from inspiring English sources
The lesser players have jumpy eyes — one look at the green, one look at a pond, then they look at their club, then their feet, the ground.
It is not necessarily excruciating but if you happen to have jumpy children, your own mode of transport may be something to take into consideration.
Stock markets across the world, which have been jumpy in recent weeks, slid lower on Tuesday.
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.
To a Popper-reading scientist, that's a little like saying: although there's no evidence that the sky is going to fall in, you should hide under your desk anyway.Since ministers flatly denied there was any danger to people from mad-cow disease, Britain's government and press have been jumpy about public health.
The brigade that cooked the food for the bar didn't have the jumpy nervousness that you saw in the fine-dining operation, maybe because it wasn't performing for a Michelin inspector's potential three stars or the Times restaurant critic's potential four.
American and European stock markets have been jumpy for weeks as they contemplate possible armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
Earlier in his career Watson, who has attention deficit disorder, could get jumpy when he had, or was closing in on, the lead.
Ricky Leacock's amazing fast direction gave "The Anatomy of Cindy Fink" its stylish life - it had the jumpy cutting of Goddard's "Breathless", whose jumpy cutting came by way of Jean Vigo's Àpropos de Nice -- but Larry gave it its narrative focus.
