Sentence examples for rather jumpy from inspiring English sources
The lack of food made some rather jumpy - we witnessed a couple of rows between young men, which I've never seen before in Morocco.
The messages will look rather like jumpy 15-second TV ads.
His camera follows his heroes doggedly as they dodge giant rocks, rampaging cyclopses and flying fireballs, but the jumpy editing drains the imagery of tension, rather than enhancing it.
The adults of this capital are jumpy, driving the wrong way on one-way streets rather than waiting for soldiers in Humvees to untangle traffic, flinching at the sound of planes.
Returning to upright position, Ms. Gray became jumpy, stalking the corners of the stage in a dynamic but rather scattered blur.
Among the finalists were Ant, a jumpy former flight attendant, who tried to win the game on strategy rather than talent; Bonnie McFarlane, a lewd neurotic-seeming woman who couldn't get a break from network audiences; and Alonzo Bodden, a former jet mechanic who has been consistently brilliant.
A clearly jumpy Costner talked about their shared Baptist roots, and perhaps went on rather too long about how he'd used his Hollywood clout to fight for her to be in The Bodyguard, the film that spawned her version of I Will Always Love You.
