Used in a Sentence

jerky

How to use jerky in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for jerky.

Editorial note

You don't really want a lot of fat in your jerky.

Examples15
Definitions4
Parts of speech2

Quick take

meat (especially beef) cut in strips and dried in the sun

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of jerky gathered in one view.

noun

meat (especially beef) cut in strips and dried in the sun

adjective

lacking a steady rhythm; "an arrhythmic heartbeat"

adjective

marked by abrupt transitions; "choppy prose"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for jerky.

noun

meat (especially beef) cut in strips and dried in the sun

adjective

lacking a steady rhythm; "an arrhythmic heartbeat"

adjective

marked by abrupt transitions; "choppy prose"

adjective

having or revealing stupidity; "ridiculous anserine behavior"; "a dopey answer"; "a dopey kid"; "some fool idea about rewriting authors' books"

Example sentences

1

You don't really want a lot of fat in your jerky.

2

Just scrolling the website is jerky on my iPad Air.

3

Kobe jerky doesn't make any sense to me anyway.

4

You rotate the tablet, and the rotation of the screen isn't smooth but jerky.

5

And no offence to beef-jerky lovers, but good beef is wasted when turned into jerky...

6

They prefer to eat stuff they can hold in one hand while driving with the other - like beef jerky, cheese sticks, instead of salads.

7

I'm kinda shocked that anyone would have invested in it at all, fraud or no. Why would you desecrate Kobe beef by making jerky out of it?

8

Here the flicker is noticeable as jerky motion, and is mostly just a problem for video, games, mouse cursor motion, smooth scrolling, etc.

9

But, Io's garbage collector didn't make the game jerky, even with a collect in my game loop.- There are some things that are better to write in C++ than in script.

10

I wish it was the idiots on Twitter who were getting fired - both the threatening jerky men as well as the opportunistic feminist ones.

11

Maybe he did something jerky a long time ago, someone called him out on his jerkyness, and so he doubled down, was even jerkier, just to show that other guy.

12

"Kind of jerky and unprofessional" is a staggering understatement.

13

* Herky jerky animations & orientation switching* No offline access!

14

Which doesn't mean that they shouldn't be fixed, just that it's hardly remarkable to find one. While certainly everyone is entitled to do disclosure however they see fit, it comes off kinda jerky to drop a working POC on the community just to advertise your unfinished competition.

15

I'm hoping this will be the death of that hideous OnSwipe Wordpress theme which tries to make a perfectly functional smooth-scrolling website and turn it into a faux iPad app with jerky, glitchy scrolling and none of the usual site navigation.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use jerky in a sentence?

You don't really want a lot of fat in your jerky.

What does jerky mean?

meat (especially beef) cut in strips and dried in the sun

What part of speech is jerky?

jerky is commonly used as noun, adjective.