例文・使い方で印象づける「jerky」の覚え方
スポンサーリンク... The ex-ambassador was very obviously in a state of acute nervous tension; his hands were tightly clasped behind his back, and his movements were curiously irresponsible and jerky... 
Baroness Emmuska Orczy 「The Elusive Pimpernel」
...They surrounded each tiny fire with switches full of roasting meat; they cut off great hunks for a stew; they made quantities of biltong, or jerky...
Stewart Edward White 「African Camp Fires」
...The common name—Skippers—isdue to the habit of the butterflies—a jerky,skipping flight as they wing their erratic way from flowerto flower...
Clarence M. Weed 「Butterflies Worth Knowing」
...A yard or two away ashaggy dog was rising from the tumble caused bythe jerky uptossing of the bull's head...
Albert Payson Terhune 「Lad: A Dog」
...The flight of the hoopoe is undulating or jerky,like that of a butterfly...
Douglas Dewar 「Birds of the Indian Hills」
...When perchedthey have a curious habit of wagging the tail from side to side, asa dog does, but with a jerky, mechanical movement...
Douglas Dewar 「Birds of the Indian Hills」
...The rooks are cawing in theelms, the cuckoo's note has been heard inthe spinney for some time before these littlevisitors pass in jerky flight up and down thevalley...
Frederick G. Aflalo 「Birds in the Calendar」
...For a long time, with jerky steps, the mother explores the body in every direction; she takes her stand by preference on the head, which she sounds by tapping on it with her front tarsi...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Life of the Fly」
...For a long time, with jerky steps,the mother explores the body in every direction; she takes her stand bypreference on the head, which she sounds by tapping on it with herfront tarsi...
J. H. Fabre 「The Wonders of Instinct」
...Marking his jerky course withan underwake and a shiver of the rushes,he reappears, to calmly observe you froma safer distance...
Rowland E. Robinson 「In New England Fields and Woods」
...As summer wanes you see and hearhim less frequently, but he is still yourcomrade of the marshes, occasionally announcinghis presence with a resonanttwang and a jerky splash among thesedges...
Rowland E. Robinson 「In New England Fields and Woods」
...He came easily enough till his tailcleared the water; then the wiggling, jerky strain was too much...
William J. Long 「Wood Folk at School」
...Moved around the nestrapidly and waved the antennæ, but all movements were jerky...
Horace Gunthorp 「Journal of Entomology and Zoology」
...Slower and slower the motion of thecreature became, and its movements again became jerky and convulsive...
Victor Rousseau 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1930」
...Racked by these thoughts, he murmured tortured, jerky phrases,unconscious he was giving voice to the things that flogged his brain...
Various 「Astounding Stories, February, 1931」
...Anothertottered with jerky steps to the edge of the roof and plungedheadlong, crashing with a great metal clatter to the stone paving ofthe ground...
Various 「Astounding Stories, July, 1931」
...As he worked,he talked in savage, jerky sentences...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930」
...Luminous, white disks, three feet in diameter, glared at him,and the creature, which progressed with jerky leaps toward him, almostfilled the mouth of the mine...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930」
ランダム例文：
manners sympathise adopted
便利！手書き漢字入力検索