Then he sighed, and began talking in short, jerky sentences.

In short, jerky sentences he related the conversation he had overheard and his last words trailed into a despairing silence.

He explained in rapid, jerky sentences as his haggard eyes searched the sphere of Black Moon, expanding across the sky ahead.

She spoke in hard, jerky sentences, as if every word hurt her physically as she uttered it.

Guess I'd better go back," and the aeronaut continued to speak in his quick, jerky sentences.

He spoke rapidly in short, jerky sentences, as though he were a weather report himself.

He thought he could not bear those jerky sentences.

Teddy in short, jerky sentences, related what had been done and said.

They talked only a little and that in rather jerky sentences.

They sat on either side of the fire, stiff-backed, upright, speaking only occasionally, in stifled, jerky sentences.