Sentence examples for jittery that from inspiring English sources

I was a little jittery that evening.

If you run off or look jittery, that will definitely clue the person in on the fact that something is up.

His teammates do not remember noticing that he was jittery that day.

Some African governments are already jittery that heedless talk of a "crusade" against Muslim enemies will stoke violent quarrels between Islamic groups and others at home.

The artist himself was on the run at the time, wanted for murder and so jittery that he slept in his clothes with a dagger always at hand.

America is heading into another debt ceiling showdown, and investors are getting jittery that the shenanigans in Washington could actually push the US close to a default.

Rice-Oxley catches exactly the persecution of pre-dawn wakefulness, that jittery alertness that can be assuaged only by taking a pill that plunges you into a thick coma from which you struggle to emerge, as if swimming up from the bottom of the sea.

He is the kind of actor who seems most in control when he's in a tizzy, and he has a voice that easily and naturally runs up to shrill and a jittery pestiness that calls for throttling.

"The (equities) market is jittery and that is understandable," he said.

Mr. Soto's "Sortijas," which translates as "Rings," is a fussy, jittery dance that mistakes acrobatic partnering for something intensely poetic.

And the hunt for those venues seems especially relevant in the jittery climate that has overtaken the city of late.