Sentence examples for knee jerk behavior from inspiring English sources

When we act without thinking, we admonish one another against such "knee jerk" behavior.

Trump's arrogant and petulant decision to skip the Fox News Debate in Des Moines is akin to John McCain's hysterical knee-jerk behavior in response to the financial crisis during the general election battle against the more measured and, thus, "Presidential" Barack Obama.

And so it is that while we might all submit on occasion to the knee jerk test, we should not submit to the knee jerk tendencies that all too readily drive behavior -- even in clinics and hospitals.

We don't want to have a knee jerk reaction".

Hooray for knee jerk reactions!

OK, maybe not, it's probably a knee jerk reaction.

A knee jerk reaction to my anguish.

For starters, we must address the knee jerk layoff reflex.

It's a knee jerk reflex in people's vocabularies.

My knee jerking.

They knee-jerked to slavery, they knee-jerked towards the n-word.