Sentence examples for how jumpy from inspiring English sources

But the exhibit shows just how jumpy the planet is.

But given how jumpy the markets are at present, a gradual disrobing may be gentler on everyone's nerves.

While Jefferies' stock price later recovered — it ended the day down only about 3.7 percent — the incident showed how jumpy investors banks have been of late.

Its neighbors' prickly reactions to upheaval in the Communist East underscored how jumpy they were at the idea of a reunified Germany smack in the middle of Europe once more.

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

Wear earplugs or listen to music (depending on how jumpy you feel) when in a confined space surrounded by people.

I was all too aware of how a jumpy 18-year-old with a machine gun might react to an Afghan vehicle that approached too close.

And now he remembered how she'd got all jumpy when Gary and Melanie had tried to make her go to the water's edge and splash around.

Vivienne's letters in earlier volumes, as well as her satirical sketches in the Criterion, highlight the way in which she views foreigners such as her husband, and she explains how her Englishness justifies her jumpy conduct.

For instance, if you're now a classical violinist, you might enjoy "fiddling" for folk dancers, too.[1] If you're now a wedding, portrait, documentary, or wildlife photographer, you might enjoy sports photography (don't buy a monster lens, just increase the ISO a bit) and, while you're at it, learn how to deal with the jumpiest subjects possible.

Melvin Burgess cross-sections his eponymous protagonist's experience, showing with jumpy third-person omniscience how abuse burns into a victim's psyche, turning shame and anger inwards or against undeserving fellow victims, not the person who does the damage.