Sentence examples for jumpy against from inspiring English sources

Updated at 12.44pm GMT 12.29pm GMT 46th over: South Africa 123-3 (Elgar 53, de Villiers 0) AB de Villiers jumpy against Lyon.

Uncharted Waters Volatility and a kind of jumpy inclination against party fealty is easy to find in Larimer, with many people saying they plan to vote Republican in one race, Democratic in the next, while leaving some lines blank if they have come to detest all sides.

Welcome to the great Ebola scare of 2014, which pits an increasingly jumpy American public against the technocrats of the Centers for Disease Control and the Obama Administration.

The village is now deserted but for a few old residents, but by nightfall the police were jumpy, on alert against attack.

Those Cuban batters were less jumpy than just plain ineffective against Matsuzaka's legendarily varied repertory.

Markets were in a tizz before the election; the price of insuring against a British government default was jumpy in the run-up to polling day (see chart).

"What's happened in the last week is we've got a lot of companies who are very jumpy," he said, claiming that an internet campaign against the scheme was being run by "a front for the Socialist Workers party".

It is in this jumpy atmosphere that Ellington composes, and some of his best pieces have been written against the glass partitions of offices in recording studios, on darkened overnight buses, with illumination supplied by a companion holding an interminable chain of matches, and in sweltering, clattering day coaches.

And jumpy.

"A little jumpy?

I was jumpy".