Sentence examples similar to knee jerk use from inspiring English sources

(And I'm not even addressing its knee-jerk use in England: "I'm off to do my laundry". "Oh, brilliant!") BENJAMIN DREYER New York The writer is executive managing editor and copy chief of the Random House Publishing Group.

We hope the news media resist the knee-jerk use of the word redemption (of course, Yahoo.com already failed at that with the headline on Pat Forde's column) because unless Penn State suddenly becomes the leader in a massive movement to fight sexual abuse of children, there will be no redemption here.

For his part, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has called for "less knee jerk prejudice" towards drug use, backing a report that suggested the UK should at least consider the possibility of legalising cannabis.

And these rules are still in use today, regardless of the knee jerk reaction many have.

"Now I can use the network as an outlet whereas before I would send a knee jerk text message.

Hooray for knee jerk reactions!

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

A knee jerk reaction to my anguish.

My knee jerking.

But green groups counselled against such a "knee jerk" response and said the money could be better used to fund sustainable transport solutions.

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