Quick pull

Usage examples of jerk.

They now came up over the big dirigible and tried to plant the last two bombs on her broad back, but the Bullet jerked so badly due to the lost aileron, that the bombs widely missed their marks.

Unable to free his hand from the reins, Alec was jerked off balance and swung out over the cliff edge.

Simultaneously Badging jerked, and his elbow knocked an ashtray of the arm of his chair.

He clawed at the bandanna, jerking it up so high he nearly blinded himself.

Hand over hand, not hurriedly so as to avoid jerking Bas and Lugh, he went up, and up.

The hawk bated, wings flapping and thrashing, and Romilly jerked, with a convulsive reflex action, and the strip of raw meat fell into the straw.

I see nothing illusive in the wretchedly bedaubed sheet of canvas that forms your background, or in these pasteboard slips that hitch and jerk along the front.

All seemed to be going well, but as the cart turned the corner out of Bergamot Street, Muirne abruptly jerked bolt upright.

Tram Bir, who was supervising the placement of the tents, stopped them and said something, jerking his thumb toward the caravan.

Staring up at him with eyes still heavy with sleep, she jerked away from his hand, opening her mouth for what Blu assumed would be a blood-curdling scream.

With a quick jerk, Ruark doffed the hat and held it in both hands before him like a bondslave suddenly confronted by his master.

The nozzle jerked loose and tumbled along the bark with Booce wrapped around it.

T-Dub and Chicamaw scraped in sudden violence and Bowie jerked up like a jackknife.

His left Colt bucked and the adversary jerked backwards onto the grass.

Leaping straight up, he looped a leg around it and jerked Buel, the man holding the chain, off his feet.