jump out at someone

Examples of jumped

jumped

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Each move consists of a jump by one man over one or more other men, the men jumped over being removed from the board.
He immediately jumped on the cub and seemed to bite it in the neck.
In one condition, participants were instructed to correct their movements on-line when the target jumped.
The stories just jumped out at me again like they had twelve years before.
As the factory head walked by, he jumped up to meet him.
Actually, there is almost no way of telling that the recopying process has jumped from one reference piece to the other.
The cost of providing employees with healthcare jumped in 1988 to 8.9% of wages and salaries, up from 2.2% in 1965.
That number jumped to 59% when the children reached 14 years of age.
Much of organized labor jumped on the "competitiveness" bandwagon.
Furthermore, some patients are likely to have "jumped" a hypothetical state.
The fences were highly effective at excluding rabbits but larger vertebrates, for example roe and muntjac deer, occasionally jumped over them.
Altogether, there were 29 occasions when prices jumped by twenty per cent or more, that is, once every six years (figure 1).
British import of foreign tin jumped from 4,000 tons to 86,600 tons from the 1840s to the 1870s.
While none, for example, were reported in 1993 and 1994, the rate jumped to 10 in 1995 and 12 in 1996.
Unlike the wind characteristics, solar radiation never jumped from one point to another, it moved smoothly up and down in a step-like manner.
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