Sentence examples for jerk yet from inspiring English sources

As a human being, Steve Jobs is the very definition of the word "jerk;" yet he's also the greatest chief executive alive.

Rep. Marion Berry (D) described Halter as "just a natural-born jerk". Yet as the incumbent gathered enough endorsements to fill a freight car, Halter's supporters worked to turn his brashness into a strength.

Many people have questioned how this could work, with some calling it just a knee jerk reaction to yet another convicted monster falling through the cracks of an admittedly over-stressed and under-funded system.

The censors' action is a knee-jerk political response, yet there is a sense in which it is not entirely unreasonable.

The gallery of eccentrics is completed by men like Gen. Hugo Sperrle, commander of the German Condor Legion in Spain, who -- Brendon tells us -- was "a flute-playing fitness fanatic who did physical jerks every morning, yet... had only one lung and smoked 40 cigarettes a day".

Joe Goffman, the lovable yet flippant jerk of a hero in THE BOOK OF JOE, by Jonathan Tropper (Delacorte, $19.95), writes a best seller that becomes a hit movie.

If he is HOT yet a jerk don't go out with him.

A choir is heard in the background, jazzy music from the '20s fades in and out, and the repetitive digital jerks conjure a festive yet demented feel.  .

And he launched yet another knee-jerk attack on the Press Complaints Commission.

Yet, a knee-jerk reaction to this challenge is to ban youth mobile use altogether.

Yet the knee-jerk response of some governments to shark-bite incidents is still to hunt, trap, and kill sharks indiscriminately.