Sentence examples for jumpy manner from inspiring English sources

The hamster becomes more reclusive, shy and retreats easily; she may behave in a nervous or jumpy manner.

As for Manuel, who was fair-skinned and stockier than his cousin, his manner was on the jumpier side.

Given cold war tensions in the early 60's and the way people used to be so jumpy about a nuclear war, the C.I.A. decided it could not move Castro out of power in the agency's preferred manner (in a coffin).

With its jumpy cuts and pitiless close-ups, TV placed a stress on sound bites, good teeth and an easy manner.

And jumpy.

It gets jumpy.

The men were jumpy.

They are jumpy, panicked.

Everybody's jumpy.

"A little jumpy?

I was jumpy".