Sentence examples for jerked open from inspiring English sources

The doors were jerked open, they said, and they were dragged out by the mob and beaten.

In their office shop, they built a prototype that was smoothly opened by a motor instead of being jerked open by a hand crank.

At the St . Johns East firehouse in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, for example, a dead mink is tied to the inside of the freezer door and flies out when the door is jerked open.

The buses stopped; doors jerked open and rumpled, hot-looking adults poured out, smiles on their faces.

Then suddenly he was too tired to be angry, and his eyes started to close and jerk open.

The back door jerks open, sunlight suffuses the muffling layers of my hoods, and I hear the roaring wind and the screaming tumult of other cars, the two men laughing.

A boiling hiss, the beat of hotness on his face jerked his eyes open.

I took her cue, donned the gauntlet, braced myself, and jerked the bedroom door open just enough to get my hand in and flick on the light.

When my father saw that his homemade "Trump 4 President" sign had been run over for the second time, he muttered "hot dammit," jerked the car door open, then marched across the yard to his twice-flattened sign.

Then he  jerks the oyster open, and the scent of salt and sea wafts through  the air.

So the Thessalian rider is wont on the open plain to guide his horse's steaming mouth with mobile bit, now spurring his rapid steed and not merely giving him rein, now jerking high the open jaws in his control, and now starting to wheel the horse's neck round and pull its wild rush into a circle.