Mrs. Timberlake twisted the yarn with a jerk over her little finger.
It did not pull or jerkand it had a lovely feeling.
A jerk and a remorseless dragging over the carpet and Robin was out of the protecting darkness and in the gas light again, lying tumbled and in an untidy, torn little heap on the nursery floor.
Nordenfelt's hopper full of one-inch cartridges, and the lever all ready to jerk backwards and forwards.
I was very nervous and excited, and when a dog suddenly began to bark, and we could actually hear him rushing down a loose stone beach close to us, my heart seemed to stop beating with a jerk for a little time.
To start a brace with the men on the spar might cause a jerk that would spill from it some one whose both hands were in the work, contrary to the sound tradition, "One hand for yourself and one for the owners.
Her fair head went back with an engaging little jerk every time the boat moved forward, making the fine wayward hairs flutter about her temples.
And the beautiful transparent, sandy-gray prawns skipped in his palm as he picked them out of the net with a dryjerk and put them into his creel.
Unpinning her flower-decked hat, she removed it with a jerk and let it slide to the floor.
On the contrary it advanced upon him with the utmost deliberation till Cinders was compelled to jerk backwards to avoid it.
He remained hesitating, obviously doubtful, till with a sharp jerk de Montville turned in his chair.
He must come and see us," said Mr. Carlaw, with a jerk of the head toward Comethup.
Bad business, this," said Mr. Carlaw, with a jerk of the head which was meant to convey that he referred to what was lying upstairs.
I understood that she lived here, and had been shut out in the rain by this woman" (the captain indicated the trembling Mrs. Blissett with a jerk of his head).
Picking the cactus up cautiously in his teeth, he held it for a second, then with a jerk of his head tossed it into the air and pursued it.
His shaking and drooping head fell lower and lower, until with a jerk he raised it only to let it droop again.
The last was spoken to a slender Spaniard who was trying to jerk Parker's leather jacket from his back.
Giving one final jerk at the valve of the gas container, Parker found himself pulled under water.
Parker saw these men suddenly jerktheir heads toward the sky as they became aware of the Jezbro.
His last jerk at the valve before Mercedes dragged him under had opened it.
The man screamed as the talons touched him, tried to throw himself flat, tried to jerk away from them.
A jerk on a stout piece of cord loosed the blade and it dropped with a flash, neatly severing the banana trunk.
When you see a red flag waved from the camera plane, go into a dive and jerk the smoke pot lever that's been rigged into your plane.
The moment that the saving punt-pole arrived some man unknown to me reached down from the ladder, seized me by the collar, and with a vigorous jerkhoisted me back on deck.
Wynnie started back, and Connie gave a little cry, for thejerk thus occasioned had hurt her.
Then he turned his head away with a jerk so sudden that he knocked the glass, beer and all, upon the pavement.
She knows he would like to jerk the bell-pull, and bring Rose up from the kitchen.
The next time Bob attempted to take in his line his hook caught upon the bottom; and when, in a fit of exasperation, he tried to jerk it loose, the cord snapped and the hopes of the fisherman were blasted for that day.
The eel tenderly draws the cork beneath the surface, and, wild with fury, you jerkout your line a second time.
Watching ever the alert head and tail, he timed his approach, working hard and moving East when the head was down; but when warned by a tail-jerk he turned to a log nor moved a muscle.
So he made a dash at the mouse and displaced the stick; the jerkit gave the line sent the song-drum with hollow bumping to the ground.
Rolf glanced at Quonab, who, unseen by the trader shook his head, held his right hand out, open hollow up, then raised it with a jerk for two inches.
I said you went that way,"--with a jerk of the head that set the tight braids to bobbing.
By a lift of his eyebrows, and a jerk of the head, he invited Farvel to take a good look at Wallace.
Jerk Dougherty into line and tell him that nothing is going to happen to him if he doesn't welsh on us.
Of the dog-faced barkeeper he asked an abrupt question, and at the man's jerk of a thumb toward the rear, the promoter passed on and entered the private room at the back.
It was the signal of release, and as the quickening staccato trailed away into silence, Smith braced himself for the slack-taking jerk of the starting freight.
That's what the crash and splash and jerk was that we felt.
The hats sailed successfully into the hall, and then stopped abruptly with a little jerk and flutter of chiffon, feathers, and velvet.
Yes," he said with an obstinate jerk to his small chin.
You are not in the politest of humors to-day," he remarked to the chief, and he held out his hands to the policemen with a jerk of his head.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jerk" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
