Jerk

//ˈdʒɜːk//

"Jerk" in a Sentence (27 examples)

He's such a shameless jerk.

He's completely convinced of his own greatness but to the people around him he's just a selfish jerk.

Suppose there's some jerk you just can't get on with.

You're a jerk.

Get lost, stupid jerk!

The jerk factory called. They want their product back.

She dumped him because she thought he was a jerk.

Your ex-boyfriend is a jerk.

I am swearing at that jerk!

Tom acted like a jerk.

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1856, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling The black cloth bestrewn with white beads blew up from time to time, laying bare the coffin. The tired bearers walked more slowly, and it advanced with constant jerks, like a boat that pitches with every wave.

A barrel-organ in the street suddenly sprang with a jerk into a jovial tune.

When I yell "OK," give the mooring line a good jerk!

I finally fired him, because he was being a real jerk to his customers, even to some of the staff.

You really are a jerk sometimes.

Oh, Raymond―don't be such a jerk. Go and get yourself a drink or a tranquilizer or something.

And [Albert Fish] was dizzyingly happy about it, smiled as described the grizzly details of the tortures and the murders, appearing to the detectives and one of the detectives said "he appeared as the Devil himself." I mean this Albert F-, I mean this guy was a real jerk!

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Girls, hey, what's that you're doing Girl, girl, what's that you're doing You got to show me the steps to it Somehow, gonna learn how to do it Doing the jerk Hey, do the jerk Girl, come on and work Hey, do the jerk.

York came to me first, whilst the groom stood at Ginger's head. He drew my head back and fixed the rein so tight that it was almost intolerable; then he went to Ginger, who was impatiently jerking her head up and down against the bit, as was her way now.

This is jerking’s 9/11

to jerk a stone

Sunshine ranks high in the island's greates burger debate, while the chicken egg rolls with mango chutney and jerk mayo and fabulous fish tacos elevate pub grub to an art.

Jerk chicken is a local favorite.

Snow stalled him in the timber; his food was all but gone when he managed to kill an antelope and jerk a supply of venison.

The Lemakot in the north strangled widows and threw them into the cremation pyres of their dead husbands. If they defeated potential invaders the New Irish hanged the vanquished from banyan trees, flensed their windpipes, removed their heads, left their intestines to jerk in the sun.

This longtime West End eatery prepares chicken the way locals like it: curried, fried, jerked, and baked.

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