A traditional serpent described as moving byjerks like a measuring worm, to which also the name is applied.
At once they changed their long, comprehensive sweeps into sharp jerks from one ship to another as each hove into the rays.
He jerks a crumb of bread into the air--a sparrow dexterously seizes it as he would a flying insect; he puts a crumb between his lips--a sparrow takes it out and feeds from his mouth.
One comes over, and as he flies he jerks a wing upwards and partly turns on his side in the air, rolling like a vessel in a swell.
It was less air or more air, by jerks on the hose.
It seems a distinct advantage that diver and tender be able to talk over a wire; yet divers who dive keep jealously to the clumsy system of jerks on the lines, and will not even be bothered with the Morse alphabet.
There wasn't much more to say or do up here, and presently we exchanged jerks on the line for the descent.
She jerks it back as if she were afraid of being swallowed.
She approaches them rather timidly and hesitatingly, as if she feared they might swallow her, then thrusts her titbit quickly into the distended mouth and jerks back.
One involuntarily closes his eyes andjerks back his head.
The patient often receives blows and jerks sufficiently hard to dislocate the joints.
As soon as the hunter can do so he jerks the animal out, and with a blow on its head kills it.
Meantime there had been all sorts of jerks and counter-jerks upon the wooden pin, and it was getting loosened in the soft ground.
Its abrupt jerks shook him wide awake, and he saw Mary Datchet, a sturdy russet figure, with a dash of scarlet about it, as the carriage slid down the platform.
The little jerks of the brute's body were the spasms of death; already the eyes were turning inward, and the upper lip was drawn from the teeth by pain.
I shall laugh when somebody jerks you awake," I replied.
Meg rang the bell, and having taken off her gloves, began to put the things on the tray, tipping the fragments of fish and bones from the edge of his plate to the middle with short, disgusted jerks of the fork.
If it is to go to the right, the assistant on that side lowers his hands slightly, and the one on the left administers a succession of jerks to the threads, which will cause the stick to progress by means of a series of jumps.
Give one or two jerks yourself, and at one of them disconnect, and then gradually appear to unlink the square, bringing, at last, the four in a single chain.
The spectator feels no shock, so the performer continues his rubbing, and, at the third or fourth trial, the spectator jerks one of his hands away, a slight electric shock having been communicated to him.
This of course turns the lower toothed sprocket and jerks the film down the space of one picture.
The wheel revolves and once every sixteenth part of a second the roller is brought around so that it strikes the film and jerks it down the three fourths of an inch that makes the space of one picture.
She stood up between her two brothers, and stayed herself in the mighty jerks of road, with a hand on the shoulder of each of them.
Gallagher pulled the reversing lever into the back gear and sent the failing steam whistling into the chilled cylinders with cautious little jerks at the throttle.
If he does it by jerks and in a fitful manner, the "hired men" will be very apt to dispense with his services and turn the grindstone for each other.
There is still one hitch about it, and a bad one just now, namely, that many people think they can buy its spirit by jerks of liberality, by costly gifts.
All right, here it is--and the cook jerks the spoon away from the potatoes, leaving them floating before you, ready to eat.
A few spasmodic jerks of our hearts, a few gasps with our lungs, and they would stop, as the muscles would have no energy to keep them going.
These manoeuvres brought vicious jerks on the wicked chain-bit that was cutting Pasha's tender mouth sorrily and more jabs from the little knives.
It tortures my nerves: it burns my eyes: it lames my flesh: it jerks and flays and garbles my inner body.
Youth plays on itself as one plays on a little dulcimer, with music as sweet, but with a crude cruel recklessness which jerks and breaks the strings.
Well, you're the hell of a--" Ted suddenlyjerks into consciousness of what he has been saying.
No movements could possibly be better suited to jerk off the offending object, for the energy with which the jerks were given, now in one direction and now in another, were, as I have said, most surprising.
She jerks or pulls the burden loose, and hurries on.
There was no doubt that the active, open-air life and Gran'pa's system of physicaljerks had greatly improved her health and vitality).
Sun, fresh air, colloidal potashes, and plenty of physical jerks had already produced marvellous results.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jerks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
