Examples of jittery in a Sentence
I always get jittery when I have to give a speech.
The latest economic news has made some investors jittery.
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Back in his Talking Head-fronting days, the euphoria was the jittery kind.
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Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2025
And Kiritsis, as Skarsgård plays him (with a jittery but logical fast-talk fervor that makes this one of the actor’s two or three most potent performances), is a very different figure than the real Tony Kiritisis, who was older and more visibly deranged.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 2 Sep. 2025
But then the crowds swelled to the tens of thousands, and the security state got jittery.
—Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2025
The three-month employment trend paints a picture of a jittery economy as consumers, small businesses and corporate executives fret about the potential impact of Trump’s unpredictable trade war, along with other destabilizing policies like mass deportations of undocumented immigrants.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 1 Aug. 2025
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Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2025
And Kiritsis, as Skarsgård plays him (with a jittery but logical fast-talk fervor that makes this one of the actor’s two or three most potent performances), is a very different figure than the real Tony Kiritisis, who was older and more visibly deranged.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 2 Sep. 2025
But then the crowds swelled to the tens of thousands, and the security state got jittery.
—Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2025
The three-month employment trend paints a picture of a jittery economy as consumers, small businesses and corporate executives fret about the potential impact of Trump’s unpredictable trade war, along with other destabilizing policies like mass deportations of undocumented immigrants.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 1 Aug. 2025
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“Jittery.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jittery. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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