Sentence examples for jumpy when from inspiring English sources

He got very jumpy when separated from his mother, Emma.

He got jumpy when the server called the sauce "sweet and sour".

I expected Andy Hall to sound jumpy when we spoke on the phone yesterday morning.

I'm a little jumpy when I see shadows in the water, but other than that, I'm all good.

Not up in his face — people get very jumpy when they feel their personal space is invaded, especially by a two-hundred-and-ten-pound African-American pickpocket".

Earlier in his career Watson, who has attention deficit disorder, could get jumpy when he had, or was closing in on, the lead.

But Smith, famous for brushing off the IPO question, seemed a bit jumpier when asked about it during a recent visit to his gorgeous new headquarters (complete with a basketball court and a 1950s-inspired soda joint).

Neither one of us wants to be among the thousands of hopeless fans and hundreds of jumpy policemen when Sakhnin gets demoted to second division.

But his jumpy enthusiasm when discussing Harlem institutions like the Lenox Lounge or a piece from his impressive photography collection make him seem youthful.

Part of his problems stemmed from the offensive line, whose inconsistent performance caused Collins to be jumpy even when the protection held.

The use of hoods during interrogation at a camp run by the British, Umm Qasr, had been quickly stamped out.The Amnesty International report detailed many individual tragedies of the kind that happen all too easily when jumpy troops with automatic weapons are given the job of policing civilians.