Neither Wat Sanford nor Jim Tapley had been asked to join in the exploration of the old road, because, as Dave Wilbur expressed it, Wat and Jim were jumpy enough already.
And Antony all the while chuckling at my elbow, as I'd sign away some more on a jumpy market.
I had a jumpy sensation that somebody behind me must be staring, and strongly willing me to look round.
Owing to the comparative darkness of the night (luckily there wasn't a moon, only stars) it would have been possible for a nervous, jumpy man to mistake the identity of a person masquerading as another person.
About then sister Marion begins to exhibit jumpy emotions.
Don't make any mistake about it; there's some excuse for a man being jumpy over the parapet when he's never had a chance of getting accustomed to it.
If it happens that he has some considerable time in trenches without ever going over the parapet, he's apt to be jumpy when he does get out.
And it's awfully like the light, jumpy sending of a girl!
Everybody is scared and jumpy down there just now, and we want to restore their confidence.
He watched its jumpy flight into a distant copse of young pines, then went on swiftly.
Such a high-strung, jumpy party he is, always glancin' around suspicious.
It was not that the digging was such hard or jumpy work, but the fact that it took two hours to get there and two more to come back, which made it such a trying business.
At fourteen Ben was expected to assume many of a man's responsibilities, not least of them the jumpy task of riding herd on his brother, who would be twelve in May.
But Matthew, he's jumpy here as the Devil in a gale of wind.
On Tuesday morning Reuben did so, admitting at once that the porridge was good as always, that the fault lay with his own jumpy stomach, his sandy-eyed weariness from a bad night.
My dear boy, being a detective you can't begin to realize that the knowledge that you are being carefully watched gives you a very jumpy feeling--especially when you know you're guilty.
Why'd she gone and got him into these mix-ups and made him alljumpy and nervous and cranky?
She took dictation swiftly, her typing was perfect, but Babbitt became jumpy when he tried to work with her.
But that's--I've been feeling so jumpy lately, I thought maybe it might be a good thing if I kind of got off by myself and sweat it out of me.
If the men see you hovering round their trenches they're so jumpy they can hardly hold their rifles.
It was pretty jumpy work, I can tell you, sitting tight and gambling with it for ten blasted days.
If Kendal sees you he's so jumpy he can hardly steer.
Sent to his base, he remained jumpy and was now permanently afraid of the line.
He was still jumpy the next day, alarmed at footsteps, and afflicted with headache.
I was out one night on barbed wire work, which is dangerous at any time, and was especially so with Fritz in his condition of jumpy nerves.
One morning as we were preparing to go over the top, and the men were a little jumpy and nervous, I heard a shot behind me, and a bullet chugged into the sandbags beside my head.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jumpy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
