Sentence examples for jumpy to from inspiring English sources

For almost two years after the 1995 Dayton peace accord ending the Bosnian war, low standards prevailed with western governments too jumpy to go after alleged war criminals even though they had thousands of peacekeeper "boots on the ground".

Supporters of the theater were calling the night a success as Mr. Levinson walked in to a filled house, although some seats were empty; a few people stood in the back, too jumpy to sit.

There was some wind on the lake, the waves were unpredictable, and the buoy danced up and down, so that the chain leading down to the wreck was too jumpy to hang on to.

Collins looked jumpy to start Tuesday's news conference at Citi Field, but he settled down, showed a sense of humor (he wears No. 10 in honor of Jim Leyland, a mentor, and because, he said, his wife "thinks I'm a 10").

It's better to stay hydrated and drink just one cup of tea a day than to fill your system with so much caffeine that you feel too jumpy to get anything done.

The visual style of television became much faster and jumpier to stave off visual ennui.

The crowd was mostly English-speaking people in their 20's raised on Madonna, but at Lido they wore cowboy hats and danced cheek to cheek and side to side in fast-paced, jumpy steps to live bands with names like Conjunto Azabache and Los Camperos del Norte.

The sense of its modern offshoot, not necessarily drug-related, ranges from "edgy, jumpy, uptight" to "pumped up, visibly nervous" to "feverishly excited".

"Animated" Web sites tended to be slow to load, jumpy and awkward to view.

He's a different person, however, when he breaks in on Curtis to begin the second scene; now he's a needy psychopath, babbling and jumpy, eager to tell a stranger the humiliating stories behind his agonizing self-image.

The music on "Gloryland" is particularly eclectic, from the spare, soulful parable of "Trying to Get to Memphis"; to the jumpy, ZZ Top-style "Bus to Shreveport"; to the apocalyptic religious imagery of "Gloryland," with echoes of Bob Dylan's "Gotta Serve Somebody," but with a very different message.