Sentence examples for jerk upright from inspiring English sources

You jerk upright and snap on the light and, to your horror, he's there – he's really there.

I would try my hardest to tiptoe past his door, but no matter how great my stealth, he would jerk upright in his bed as if I'd dropped a Popsicle on his stomach.

He said that when she asked for water, Mr. Monserrate tripped and spilled some on her, causing her to jerk upright and smash into his hand with the glass.

Never jerk upright, or yank on the object to lift it.

The dancers move with discrete, small steps, stopping and starting, shoulders hunching and dropping, torsos angling backward, then jerking upright, arms thrown into the air.

The cables hold the tower upright much as some children's toys can be jerked upright by pulling tight an elastic cord, and they make it both taut and flexible in the wind.

He wakes up in a Bourne-type situation, jerking upright in an empty hospital room with a head wound and no idea how he got from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Florence, Italy.

The seizures were rated according to the following criteria [34, 35]: stage 0, no response; stage I, ear and facial twitching; stage II, myoclonic jerks without upright position; stage III, myoclonic jerks, upright position with bilateral forelimb clonus; stage IV, clonic-tonic seizure; and stage V, generalized clonic-tonic seizures, loss of postural control.

While the blast jerked me upright, no one else seemed too bothered.

"Is something wrong?" "Sit down," George's mother said, but Aunt Louise grabbed her arm and jerked her upright.

Naida suddenly jerked her doll upright and the long-lashed blue eyes of the wax bride opened with a snapping sound, and stared, meltingly, coquettishly, at the sister.