The truck came to a stop with a sudden jerk.
The teacher grabbed the young boy by the shirt, and jerked him up out of his chair.
The policeman indicated a chair to sit in with a jerk of his head.
The car moved jerkily forward, and then came to a stop.
My boss is
a total jerk; he gets mad for nothing, and always blames everyone else for his own mistakes.
If you feel a fish bite the line, give the rod a quick jerk to set the hook in its mouth.
Some jerk at the nightclub kept asking my girlfriend to dance and the guy wouldn't give up.
He
jerked his head around when he heard his father angrily shouting at him.
The young boy jerked his fishing pole upwards when he felt something bite, in order to set the hook in the fish's mouth.
Her boyfriend is a real jerk; he's always making comments about her weight.
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Allen Smith once said, "On Monday mornings, I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks."
Jean Rhys once said that age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.
Marly dove off the high diving board, and when he hit the water, the force jerked his head back, and injured his neck.
I felt a jerk on my fishing line - I had caught a salmon!
E. L. Kersten once joked that it is best to avoid standing directly between a competitive jerk and his goals.