Sentence examples for suddenly jerk from inspiring English sources

The waterwheel will revolve in one direction as before, and then suddenly jerk about and revolve in the other direction.

"Nor did he have what is known as the exaggerated startle response, in which a loud noise causes the muscles to suddenly jerk and which is one of the real tip- offs to neurologists about Creutzfeldt- Jakob disease," Dr. Bender said.

After that, when Feller's muscles weren't tightening up, they'd suddenly jerk during putting, causing him to miss.

If they come near to your face and say something, suddenly jerk back and shout "Have you been eating garlic?" or "You look old".

As I waited for his reply, the bus suddenly jerked.

One day she suddenly jerked herself to a standstill.

For just a second, you could be fooled, suddenly jerked back into the nightmare.

It was like a CD track skipping, or a video suddenly jerking to the next scene.

In particular — so unusual in ballet — the head is suddenly jerked sideways or forwards, so that a step that might otherwise appear classically harmonious if extreme becomes eccentric.

We almost feel ourselves to be in the equivalent of the cockpit of a helicopter which suddenly jerks its tail end, precipitating us forward.

At a certain point this would-be shocker suddenly jerks into high gear and becomes a blatant, incompetent rip-off of "Psycho".