Sentence examples for jerk down from inspiring English sources

"I just shut the jerk down".

Silent films were often shot at sixteen frames per second, a speed that made actors twitch and cars seem to jerk down the street.

Referred to at early rodeos as "jerk down" roping, or "fairgrounding," steer roping is a timed event that resembles calf roping except that the animal is considerably larger and heavier and, after the catch, is thrown in a tripping maneuver.

At least Joe Gould, one of Joseph Mitchell's "most intriguing subjects", is sceptical of book reviewing, evoking a machine where you "jerk down a couple of levers and a review drops out" – which is enough to make FECarr a little cautious in reviewing Joseph Mitchell's collection of journalism, Up in the Old Hotel.

So, I'll just continue to type out this column one handed while I beat off an anonymous man who called me a jerk down at the North Shore Farms.

When you jerk down the string, do short jerks.

Then the hand jerked down toward the flower, grabbed a petal, and flung it on the table.

Several said that helmeted riders seem to bang heads with bulls (known as being jerked down, or dashboarded) more often than those without, speculating that it might be because they ride with false invincibility.

My friend pulls his hat brim down to deflect the sun, as everybody does, and makes the double-haul cast — a move in which the non-dominant hand jerks down and up on the line, both on the forward and back casts.

"Merck the Jerk is down 2.16.

Then more horns honked as if in rebuke until all the jerks quieted down.