How to Use jerk around in a Sentence

jerk around

verb

• The view of his phone camera jerks around, points up to the sky and captures a glimpse of his masked face.
  — Julia Ainsley, NBC news, 13 Jan. 2026
• For a few moments, the image jerks around in a raw amateur way.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 18 Oct. 2026
• Are the typesetters’ heads jerking around?
  — Literary Hub, 8 Dec. 2025
• Those afflicted would tremble and jerk around, lose the ability to stand or swallow, and, after many months of slow suffering, die.
  — David Remnick, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026
• Ciri gets a bit more agency and backbone, a welcome evolution for a character who has been jerked around by the plot, her allies and her enemies for too long.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 30 Oct. 2025