jumpy

How To Use jumpy In A Sentence

• His eyes have a certain amount of little-boy-lost about them and his slightly nervy, jumpy presence also helps him appear a lot younger than his 43 years.
• He didn't know why he was so jumpy lately, every little thing scared him.
• You feel jumpy and emotional and those great rolling waves of nostalgia you're trying to suppress are washing over you like waves on a beach. The Sun
• Smoothly steering between R&B and Eurodance, she's breathily seductive on Motivation – by contrast, guest Lil Wayne is positively anaemic – while I'm Dat Chick updates the jumpy minimalism of Destiny's Child's No, No, No. Kelly Rowland: Here I Am – review
• She was a nervous, highly strung and jumpy individual. Times, Sunday Times
• One IS jumpy when soft-nosed bullets putt-putt around him. CHAPTER XLVII
• He took nervous infants of nervous mothers — babies who in standardized newborn testing were already jumpy themselves — and gave them to especially nurturing “supermoms.” The Science of Success
• That's the message from the arts world, and Downing Street must judge whether it's just a few jumpy luvvies or the revealing response of people whose job is to anticipate and satisfy the public's mood.
• You obviously had a bad night, you fell asleep with a gun in your hand, and you're jumpy as all get-out. FOLLY
• He was so jumpy at every sound he thought he'd overdose on adrenaline.