Sentence examples for jerk about from inspiring English sources

The Reserve Bank intervenes to ensure the currency's value does not jerk about violently.

There's a sort of swashing in his mouth when he talks, the little eyes stare out at you, his eyebrows jerk about, the mouth twists and undulates like a snake with its tail in its mouth.

Strange sounds soak the air and eccentric sights dance and shake before your eyes, like Christiaan Zwanikken's reanimated animals, who jerk about and mutter to one other; or the musical nests of Japanese artist Tomomi Sayuda; or the chunky Calculator Orrery that swings about cosmically while nearby an Owl Organ stares out sharply, both the brainchilds of David Cramner.

But you're not helping by being a jerk about it.

(I have historically been a jerk about the Grateful Dead).

Do not be a jerk about being asked to show ID.

They bray incantations from "Curse Upon Iron" by the Estonian composer Veljo Tormis: "You flesh eater, gnawer of bones, spiller of innocent blood!" Tonu Kaljuste, their departing music director, jerks about, smacking a tambourine against his flank like a mad shaman.

Every so often the camera starts jerking about as if the cameraman were suffering a seizure (the presumably fit cinematographer is Martin Ruhe), as in the frenzied scene that opens the movie with a drug-addled youth randomly killing a mother in front of her child.

Often, we are as helpless as a marionette, being jerked about by someone else's subtle influence.

Halfway across he jerks about; with a squawking curse he flounders back sprawling.

The clean-and-jerk takes about eight.