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How to use the word JUMPY in a Sentence?

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The intro on Ukraine worked well enough, but boy did Associated Press -RRB- Biden move on quickly, and not to anything particularly compelling or new.As a technicalmatter, the speech felt strung together and disjointed, with cram-ins and jumpy transitions.The substance amounted to a dry list of policy points, like it was geared toward lawmakers in the room rather than people at home.He missed multiple chances to bring ideas to life with examples or audience shout-outs. The conclusion was too safe and forgettable for such a historic time. Politically speaking, while Associated Press -RRB- Biden may have avoided losing ground, Associated Press -RRB- Biden certainly didn't gain any. And that makes it a miss.

Rob Noel

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We need to more information before markets have a further correction or get comfortable things won't escalate further, markets will be very jumpy until there's increasing confidence the virus is abating and that it won't be a global pandemic.

Jason Draho

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Markets will be very jumpy until there's increasing confidence the virus is abating and that it won't be a global pandemic.

Jason Draho

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I cringe, when a tariff even gets talked about, it makes both the buyers and the sellers jumpy. It's going to impact my bottom line, it's going to impact my business livelihood, and, to an extent, it becomes a mental outlook.

Dale Stevermer

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Honestly, I just had the thought in my head that somebody was going to come up behind me and hurt me, shoot me, kill me. I ’m still jumpy from it, i do n’t know who to trust anymore, at all … This should be our safe place.

Dakota Shrader

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

It was a little bit jumpy...for things that maybe the average driver would just drive over it and not really be concerned about, he (the pilot) said it was erring on the side of caution which made a lot of sense.

Emily Henke

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

The ability to buy LNG from the U.S. (and other places) probably means that (Britain) will be able to manage through a normal winter, but the markets could get a bit jumpy if it is a cold winter and we have no Rough.

Energy Aspects analyst Trevor Sikorksi

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The longer-term problems we have in the United States haven't gone away and that's what's causing investors to be a bit jumpy.

Daniel Kern

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

While we still have time before the spring, new detachments will be able to receive military training, we expect mobilization to yield at least five additional brigades five motorized brigades, one artillery brigade and a tank brigade. The Ukrainian rearguard for the Debaltseve front in Artemivsk, the home of one of the country's best-selling sparkling wines, looks increasingly like a garrison town. Auto-mechanics and tire shops have seen a sharp pick-up in business repairing damaged vehicles brought in by soldiers. Abandoned Soviet-era plants have been converted into bases. The local stadium is used as a landing pad for helicopters ferrying out the wounded. Many troops are nervous, jumpy and ill-tempered. On Wednesday, a group of irregulars detained a group of international journalists in the center and threatened to escort them out of the town if they took pictures of military equipment. The cannonades are fainter in Artemivsk, but they can still be heard. The significance of that is lost on few.

Alexander Zakharchenko

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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