Sentence examples for it was jumpy from inspiring English sources

It was jumpy and jarring.

It is jumpy and syncopated at every level, starting with a constant clave pattern emphasizing offbeats -- three taps, then two -- and layering it with controlled explosions from congas and other percussion.

Filming in 2003 (the movie was eventually completed by a Helsinki production house), Mr. Neuvonen captures amazing moments — burglaries in progress, a stoned friend tumbling several stories from a balcony to the sidewalk — and a coherent story emerges about Jani's downward spiral, though it's jumpy and episodic, stitched together with intertitles.

It's jumpy as hell and succeeds in being uncomfortably creepy in between scares.

This was my first operation this year beyond the bases and combat outposts - outside the wire, as soldiers call it - and I was jumpy as hell.

He was jumpy.

I was jumpy".

His mind was jumpy.

I was jumpy, twitchy, uneven.

Dennis Mahon was jumpy and on the run in Arizona.

The mood at Golos's Moscow office was jumpy on Thursday.