Sentence examples for sudden jerk from inspiring English sources

The blessed old tub gave a sudden jerk.

10.53pm GMT 43rd over: England 80-5 (Root 8, Prior 6) Martin – who has a straight-laced, no-frills approach that's garnished with a sudden jerk of wild movement just before delivery – straightens Prior up then gets the ball to spit back past his outside edge.

Yet Lee punctuates the scenes in manipulative ways that make us wary: he throws seething nebulae onto the screen, sends clouds of invading blood corpuscles creeping across computer models, and relies on such dubious tricks as shock zooms — a sudden jerk back from, say, the eye of a frog, as if recoiling in fear at what might lie within the animal.

The body shows a tendency of a sudden jerk when it shows the present kind of behavior.

It is really the sensory equivalent of the motor start [the hypnic or sudden jerk accompanied by a falling feeling] we all sometimes get as we are going off to sleep, she says.

The sudden jerk of the belt threw me off balance and into a face plant.

For the first few lessons, Ms. Hutter moved like a subway train, all sudden jerks and alarming stops.

Yips are the sudden jerks, clenches, twitches or spasms that can send an easy two-foot putt right off the green.

But all the passengers on the bus seemed to have smooth white heads like giant eggs, with huge glittering eyes like the faceted compound eyes of insects — their eyes seemed to move in sudden jerks, which increased the feeling of their fearsomeness and alienness.

There was a sudden jerking motion, we stopped and lights came up halfway, so we could see just enough to really know how the sausage gets made.

MS patients refer to spasticity-related symptoms using a range of terms including muscle rigidity, sudden jerks or contractions in limbs or trunk often associated with pain [ 10].