Sentence examples for he was so jumpy from inspiring English sources
He was so jumpy, he'd do everything wrong.
The company began working on the play by watching film versions, including those starring Kevin Kline ("He was so jumpy," Mr. Shepherd said), Kenneth Branagh ("Terrible") and Ethan Hawke ("They're making it as cool, modern and filmic as possible — and it doesn't work").
Of course, the second man always drives too fast – his confidence in his reaction times is absolute – and the first man has never had a wreck, but when I am driving with him, he is so jumpy that it feels like a wreck is imminent.
But the story read as if McClelland was so jumpy about writing it that she did so with eyes closed and face scrunched up, rushing to get the words out before she lost her nerve.
"The Americas are so jumpy," said Jameel Ghani Hashim, manager of homicide statistics for the Interior Ministry.
The market has been so jumpy that a single egg may make all the difference, especially if it is fertile.
Evelyn Kirkpatrick has had to see a psychiatrist since the day the trade center came down, she said, "because I am so jumpy".
Namely, when markets are so jumpy, isn't part of the trick of having fiscal credibility not bragging all about it, and how you are going to use it to your advantage?
Cairo's liberals are so jumpy that talk of allowing policemen to grow beards is seen as a step on the road to turning Egypt into an Islamic Republic modelled on Iran; though the prosecution of two journalists for apparently insulting Mr Morsi gives genuine cause for concern.Aside from that, Mr Morsi has so far exercised power with care.
Even before the announcement, the Russian authorities were so jumpy about Arab Spring-type uprisings that they drafted a United Nations convention requiring countries to refrain from using the Internet for "psychological campaigns carried out against the population of a state with the intent of destabilizing society".
Given cold war tensions in the early 60's and the way people used to be so jumpy about a nuclear war, the C.I.A. decided it could not move Castro out of power in the agency's preferred manner (in a coffin).
