at irregular intervals, by fits, desultorily, erratically, in snatches, irregularly, patchily, roughly, spasmodically, tremulously, unpredictably, variably
Definitionadv. with spasms
Last update: September 20, 2015
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"I won't let myself love you, and I won't let you fall in love with me," she added, snatching her coat and jerkily pulling it on as she strode to the door. [Please select]
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(Myles Crawford strides out jerkily, a quill between his teeth.) [Please select]
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The door bell commenced to ring jerkily. [Please select]
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Fifteen minutes after Gloria Vanderman left us I saw a banner go jerkily mounting up the newly placed flag-pole on the keep. [Please select]
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"Very nice of you to bring Miss Summers," he said jerkily, making his own introduction. [Please select]
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Raskolnikov, white as a handkerchief, had answered sharply, jerkily, without dropping his black feverish eyes before Ilya Petrovitch's stare. [Please select]
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And was not Dorset, to whom his glance had passed by a natural transition, too jerkily wavering between the same extremes. [Please select]
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Maitland obeyed, managing the car with greater ease and less jerkily as he began to understand the principle of the lever. [Please select]
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Philip walked noisily, jerkily, irregularly, like a man conscious of weakness and determined to conquer it. [Please select]
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And, jerkily, his angry thoughts pounced, as they so often did, on Uncle Arthur. [Please select]
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The motion of the ship was different now; the front part seemed almost still, but the behind part rose and fell jerkily. [Please select]
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