Example sentences for: jittery

How can you use “jittery” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • ) Instead of calming jittery investors, the two mandated breaks induced more panic, and were portrayed by the electronic press as evidence of a major crash.

  • Next, coffee makers will admit that caffeine makes some people jittery, and Nabisco will admit that peanut butter and Ritz crackers are just a match made in heaven."

  • And, as a counterpoint to all the luscious, bare-breasted white girls used to tempt the hero into playing for the Man, there's a hooker (the model Milla Jovovich, the film's most unlikely bit of casting, made to look like a near albino) who's exploited and knocked around by a jittery black pimp (Thomas Jefferson Byrd) so sadistic that if this film had been made by a white director he'd have been cited (most likely by Lee) as a flagrant racist outrage.

  • That, and the way youthful twitchiness and uncertainty--from an uncomfortably pandering Ruth Brown to an amateurish Frankie Lymon to a jittery Elvis Presley--formed a new musical vocabulary.

  • Whenever wages start to go up a bit--God forbid, workers should see their salaries jump--Wall Street gets jittery about inflation and the Fed pumps the brakes.


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