Sentence examples similar to jerked the rope from inspiring English sources
"Is everybody looking at me?" Pozzo says, jerking the rope to raise Lucky's head.
The doorman jerks the pull-rope now and then, causing the tassels to snap up and scare the pigeons.
The most heart-rending is the last, which reports on the shooting of seven "terrorists" by the police, including video scenes of the corpses being callously jerked by rope across bloody asphalt.
There cannot be any slack in the rope with the boat starts going or else it will jerk the water skier forward and cause them to lose their balance.
The rope jerked and the cable released, sending the proud sedan earthward.
When a gust blew the papers toward the street, or the rope jerked and a bottle shattered, everyone put their hands to their head, cursing, betrayed by fate, but the ridiculous system was never retired.
These have been replaced by knee-jerk politics, third-rate knockoffs of folk tales and a vision of England where Sunday cricketers still gather on village greens and bell-ringers yank the ropes in the local church.
If you hang on to the end of the rope, the jerk on the head collar may be enough to turn the horse and slow him down.
Mariquita's crew trims her huge mainsail by hand, forming a line and tugging in the rope with methodical jerks.
If someone started a song, or if the old men sitting around the stove began to yell at each other, he would shuffle over to the gong and give the rope a series of savage jerks.
