jerkily's Usage Examples:

When on the ground or perched it moves its tail jerkily up and down and side to side, while making its monotonous cricket like.

Sprockets crew members, dressed identically to Dieter, joined him onstage and jerkily danced to techno music.

It changes the flight direction jerkily.

Strange Days, critic Richie Unterberger described "Love Me Two Times" as "jerkily rhythmic", while Rolling Stone magazine called the song a "heavy, evocative.

Plot is trivial and jerkily developed, while the acting is at times painfully lame.

time on the surface of water, making seemingly random movements, moving jerkily in one direction, pivoting and moving off again in another.

He "bowled jerkily with a low arm, but at a very fast pace".

slowly forward using their webbed feet while the head and neck is moved jerkily above the water.

series" in terms of acting: Shatner has a "nuanced performance, walking jerkily as though unaccustomed to legs after eons without a body", while "Nimoy.

The entirety of the video is performed by simplistic and jerkily animated puppets against unconvincing but humorous cardboard backdrops.

Its segments are rather jerkily and sloppily tacked together, and its improbabilities and illogic soon.

I did not rush towards him but walked jerkily into the cabin—all my limbs stiff and slow to respond.

A characteristic of this ant is the way that the workers move around jerkily in apparently random directions.

alternates between gliding rather clumsily and resting in one spot, circling jerkily.

palette on offer" on the song, musing that that track contained both a jerkily funky beat, and a vaguely African-sounding guitar line.

It moves jerkily up and down or around tree branches and trunks.

I did not rush towards him but walked jerkily into the cabin--all my limbs stiff and slow to respond.

The video ended with a large group of extras jerkily rotating around Gabriel, among them his daughters Anna-Marie and Melanie.

" James Hamilton from Music Week's RM Dance Update called it a "jerkily surging pop chugger".

Chromolaena and Lantana, but is very wary and energetic at such times, moving jerkily and rapidly between flowers or across inflorescences.

Synonyms:

spasmodically;