Sentence examples for jumpy in from inspiring English sources
"I'm feeling jumpy in general," said Glenn Davis, a schoolteacher.
A horse that is jumpy in the starting gate risks missing the break.
"I was jumpy in pubs for months afterwards," one told me.
That should make banks more disciplined about tying up assets, and make investors less jumpy in times of stress.
Mary Ellen Doran-Quine, a speech pathologist in Reston, Va., said Mr. Bush should not be too jumpy in responding.
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).
Being no expert on those parts of the brain – the amygdala and the cingulate cortex – that are supposed to regulate anxiety and emotion, I am in no position to argue with the finding of learned researchers that they are much jumpier in city people than in those who live in the country.
In a sign of the jumpy atmosphere in Paris since the attacks, the deadliest in France since the second world war, people who had gathered at the Place de République scattered in panic on Sunday evening, prompting armed police to rush into the square.
As the viola sings in fitful lyrical outpourings, an ensemble of six instruments respond with jumpy figurations in Ms. Musgrave's trademark harmonic language -- a diffuse, shifting, spiky tonality.
The doctor is a thin, jumpy man in a tweed jacket, and he smokes without pause.
The events are not linked, but the government is getting jumpy.In Grenoble, a 23-year-old was attacked by a gang who followed him off a tram in the city centre.
