Jerks is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for JERKS in dictionary:

VERB:
• JERK, to move spasmodically
• move or cause to move with a jerk
• raise (a weight) from shoulder level to above the head.
• cure (meat) by cutting it into strips and drying it (originally in the sun).
• prepare (pork or chicken) by marinating it in spices and barbecuing it over a wood fire
NOUN:
• a quick, sharp, sudden movement
• a spasmodic muscular twitch.
• the raising of a barbell above the head from shoulder level by an abrupt straightening of the arms and legs, typically as the second part of a clean and jerk.
• a contemptibly foolish person.
• jerked meat
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to move with a sharp, sudden motion

Words related to JERKS

jerk15 jerked18 jerking19

How to use JERKS in a sentence

• As it struck a sunken mine it gave two plunging jerks.
• When awake, her mental machinery moved slowly and without any jerks.
• She talks in short jerks and has a quick, hurried way of doing things, as if she liked to get through and have done with them.
• He sat arrowy-straight save that his left shoulder worked back in convulsive jerks as he strove to get the head of Rickety up.
• Others besides myself will see a warning in the Jerks before they are gone.
• He thoroughly understood and valued the real and living unity of a character which mostly revealed itself to the outer world by what seemed jerks and discordant traits.
• When I learned from the cessation of the jerks that he was safe on the raft, I hauled in my line, ferried the man across, and, leaning over, gave him a helping hand up the bank.
• The glass is there, and an old man has taken it in his steady hand, and is reporting the news by little jerks of speech to the anxious throng around him.
• Billy, without rising, jerks his chair forward till they are facing each other, his knees touching hers.
• For ten years he had held court, moving his little throne about with sudden jerks.
• The young man seemed to be dozing in earnest when, with a succession of jerks, the train rapidly slackened speed.
• These wheels are very heavy, and when rolling they go by jerks, owing to their want of proportion, etc.
• But nothing can be riches or a nuisance to the infinite God, who neither lives on revenue nor judges by jerks.
• I could hear Trenchard behind me stumbling over the stones and ruts, walking as he always did with little jerks, as though his legs were beyond his control.
• The trifling movement lost him his balance, his exhausted and convulsed body went round like a top and he lay breathing in little jerks on the swampy ground.
• They were quite proud of the way in which they broke it off, with quick upward jerks of their heads, and their teeth were growing finely.
• I got the idea then of fixing it up and bringing it back to Venusport to give them young jerks a surprise.
• Her white hands moved with little jerks as she took her stitches, and her rings flashed and twinkled in the light of the hearth.
• He never moves abruptly or jerks himself impatiently, as the red squirrel is continually doing.
• Again it took practically every ounce of strength they had in their muscular bodies, but they could move steadily now, instead of in straining, spasmodic jerks.
• Somebody was sending peal after peal echoing through the garden, with quick, impatient jerks of the bell-wire.
• We climb in flagging jumps, in jerks, pounded by the panting of the following waves that push us before them, closely beset by their clattering, nor turning round to look again.
• The servant, after waiting for two or three more jerks at the bell, so as to be quite sure that it was the bell, went to the door, and there found Mr.
• Its abrupt jerks shook him wide awake, and he saw Mary Datchet, a sturdy russet figure, with a dash of scarlet about it, as the carriage slid down the platform.
• Halicarnassus took the handle, and gave about five jerks.
• He laughed not quite naturally, forcing the last several jerks of his laughter, so that she shuddered at the thought of his possible contempt.
• The father shook his arm impatiently, as one jerks away an annoying fly.
• The coachman and he are on the best of terms, as the outward twist of their elbows and jerks of the head on meeting testify.

Similar words containing JERK without suffix s

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