Sentence examples for to jitter from inspiring English sources

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to jitter

verb

To be nervous.

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Electric stimulation sends electricity to nerves in the muscle, causing them to jitter.

The heat inside an ordinary cell can cause proteins to jitter so much they will fold incorrectly.

The piece had a likably propulsive buzz, heartily amplified; the first movement sounded like Bernard Herrmann's "Psycho" shrieks made to jitter and surge à la John Adams's "Shaker Loops".

The constant turbulence of the atmosphere causes the images of stars to jitter, or "twinkle", smearing them out into smudges so that even the biggest Earth-based telescope affords a view hardly sharper than Galileo's pioneering instrument.

Labour has moved into a wafer-thin one-point lead in the final pre-election Guardian/ICM poll, leaving the country on a knife-edge with the markets starting to jitter.

But those threats haven't been enough to jitter the markets.

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After the simulation process, Weta Digital ran every bead through a temporal filter to remove jitter to control the noise.

Suddenly, Fulham's jubilation turned to jitters.

South Korean stocks slumped 1.64 percent Friday in a selling spree among foreign investors that analysts attributed to jitters over North Korea.

It took a pinball in the area to flummox a home defence too often prone to jitters.

Iraq's defiant rebuttal added to jitters that war with Iraq might be longer and more costly than earlier anticipated, investors said.

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