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Sentence Examples With each flash a great jolt drubbed me till I thought my bones would break. The sudden vibration of her phone caused her to jolt, earning an odd stare from the boy sitting next to her. We stood, awkwardly for a full thirty seconds, before he seemed to jolt back to life. He felt a jolt of fear lance through his gut but managed to keep his voice level. But lattes are 90 percent milk and lack the jolt provided by unalloyed caffeine. A win would bring verve to a locker room in need of such a catalyst, an emotional jolt. Nick was roused from sleep with a jolt, his beeper sounding loudly next to him. Suddenly a sharp jolt of pain rang through my entire system as I opened my eyes. The independent suspension soaks up all manner of road imperfections from concrete joins to ruddy great holes quietly and without a jolt. The latest trend to jolt the watch industry is see-through straps, asymmetrical dials, and funky colours. It's a jolt, a rude awakening, trying to exist without light or water in the home when they are taken away suddenly. He received a jolt of electricity from the deadly third rail which carries 750 volts. A bold-striped throw rug was tossed down between the bed and seating area for a jolt of life to some very tired carpet. The jolt from the direct hit sent him flying out of his seat and across the cockpit. Do you ever feel like you just need a jolt of energy and then you'd be able to do anything you set your mind to? It may also be good for the Democrats, who could use a jolt of electricity to shock them out of their smug complacency. So I started thinking about how to do it better, instead of trusting to luck or a jolt of deadline inspiration. A quick jolt in the microwave will restore its soft unctuousness, even if its soupiness is gone. The unfancied Lancashire side delivered a jolt to City's ambitions with a 3-1 win at Valley Parade. All it requires is a flicker of disorientation, an unexpected jolt, or an encounter with a mystery too spooky to explain, and it's off. Show More Sentences All of a sudden she felt a sharp jolt come from the ship and her hot chocolate slopped right over the edge. After the grace and concern of the Arabs, this jolt of American culture unnerved me. Derryn sat up with a jolt and snatched the shirt from the chair, quickly pulling it on. This mobile phone add-on provides a 30-second jolt of pleasure to the nether regions whenever someone rings or texts. There was a 7.1 earthquake down south last week, and a quick sharp jolt here on Saturday night. The taxi gave a light jolt as it went over a speed bump and this broke through his rather distressing thoughts. I more or less slept through flight, wakened only occasionally by those Twilight Zone gremlins on the wings that make planes bump and jolt. The ride is very bumpy and dark, forcing the couple to jolt around and into each other. If nothing else, the unexpected jolt of caffeine will get you through the rest of the day. The fish soup that had formed in the less-dense fresh water immediately poured up out of the jar and gave the sharks' olfactory senses a jolt. With a sudden jolt, the primary engines caught and the ship sped skywards on a comet of light. They had almost grown used to the odd stupor when the lift gave a sudden jolt and came to a stop. Largely absent are the spacey Grandaddy synths that occasionally lent the band's debut a pleasant jolt of modernity. The passing of people whom you've known all your days and with whom you worked on many occasions, always comes a jolt. A handful of raw pepitas or dry roasted pumpkin seeds can give you a natural jolt to power through a workout. The morning jolt of mariachi comes from Radio Bilingue, one of the nation's only public radio stations aimed at farmworkers. Such formal liberties were intended to jolt the viewer out of complacency into a fresh social outlook. With a gasp from the motors and a jolt, the ship surged into the overwhelming blackness of space, inky dark except for the sprinkling of stars. His answer was a sudden jolt from Nick, fierce enough to let Nick slip out of his grasp. Draped over the bench like this the body takes the full force of recoil, with no flexibility to absorb the jolt. Show More Sentences Meeting people like this is exciting and scary, but it might be just what you need to jolt yourself out of your funk. The only trouble with this form of mental escape is that sooner or later you must come back to earth, the jolt of this being pretty terrific. At daybreak, Doune woke with a startled jolt of fear, looking around and telling himself it was only a dream. All of the light fixtures and electronic devices currently plugged in exploded from the jolt of electric energy that had rocketed from the sky. The effect is lyrics that sound like poems strained through post-modern coffee grounds, full of jolt and flavour. Half a tin of that and you would need another douche circulatoire to jolt your arteries open. Next Friday is Bastille Day, but even that famous celebration is unlikely to jolt sleepy Montpellier out of its drowsy charm. Several strong quakes followed through the night, and aftershocks continued to jolt the area through yesterday evening. Those, though, are too unreal to jolt and sillier than a pack of Girl Scouts jacked up on cotton candy and soda pop. A removable battery cover may jolt a hard drive unacceptably when jogging, albeit imperceptibly to the user. A sharp jolt shook Missy's plane as a missile exploded against the back part of her shield. You could see the agony of it jolt his whole body and knock the last remnant of strength from his legs. He obviously hadn't meant to jolt me that much, because his eyes lit in surprise, too, as he made every effort to catch me in return. They said that crew members told them the idea was to hit the tarmac with the gear on the left side to jolt the right gear loose. Through this work, he hopes to create a sort of electric shock that will jolt the audience into seeing what hides behind the image. This latest atrocity has sent a fresh shock wave to jolt us out of our complacency. She hits downward, a jolt searing through my shoulder blade, I sag visibly. Darin thumps into the chair, wincing as the impact sends a jolt of pain up his spine. A massive jolt of turbulence shook the plane, and there were a few audible gasps. All of a sudden there was a sudden jolt and then the plane began to rock furiously. Show More Sentences Every step was a jolt of pain through her body, but she couldn't let Luz know this. Nothing happened for a bit, and I thought he'd said it just to keep us quiet, but then there was a sudden jolt and we jumped to the left a bit. He landed on the stone tiles with an audible thump, and a nasty jolt of fresh pain jumped up his spine. Solicitor Susan Stephenson was working on some papers when there was a violent jolt and she realised the carriage was going over. And one day, five years later, while I was wiping his arm as always, I felt a jolt of movement in his arm. He grinned and picked me up, sending a jolt of surprise through me and making me let out an involuntary shriek of laughter. I got an unpleasant jolt when I realized that it was identical to the one Morgan always wore. Almost immediately, he felt a jolt of apprehension and anger rush through him. He returned, once again sitting beside me, his hand fell on mine causing a jolt to shock my stomach. Then, suddenly, a jolt of shock went coursing through her as she glanced beyond the double doors, toward the gates of the school. When he was born, when I saw him for the first time, the ecstasy that I felt was piercing, electric, transfiguring, a jolt of joy. He anticipates a degree of culture shock and sees such a jolt as an opportunity for exchange of ideas. Middleton says she felt a strong jolt of maternal love when she looked at the first picture of her ultrasound scan. But I was surprised to realise, courtesy of a little jolt of panic, that I can't really remember what to do to keep a kid amused. Gerald's manner is low-key, so when he reacts with a jolt of emotion, it registers. The woman moved to stand next to him, and Lexa felt a jolt of surprise as she recognized the weapon in the man's hand. We embraced, and his lips found mine, a little jolt went down my spine sending a little shiver down it. Pile lush heirloom tomatoes in a footed bowl for a jolt of hot late-summer color on your outdoor table. Just as everybody's life finished flashing before their eyes, the jet began to level out as the wheels hit the runway with a sharp jolt. All of the verbs in this excerpt are polysyllabic, strategically alliterative, and speak to various kinds of action that jolt the reader. Show More Sentences Suddenly a jolt of pain seared through my body, like flames being ignited. Ramsey investigators said the marks could have been made by a jolt from a certain kind of stun gun. Kathryn felt a momentary jolt of awe and happiness, but it was soon overwhelmed by spite and hatred for this woman, uttering such lies, such falsehood. He read Borges and admired him, but the title of The Universal History of iniquity gave him an immediate jolt. It succeeds within its own parameters, but it never administers the maximum-voltage jolt of genuine surprise. Seeing Nora's advanced pregnancy gives Maxine her own jolt of shock. Feeling a jolt of surprise in my stomach, I look hesitantly back. The whole point of writing for free online, as Justin Hall had shown, was that it produced a jolt of joy. It sent a jolt of happiness through me and filled me with a love for life. The rising rage in Beth's voice sends a jolt of alarm through Chelsea. With a jolt of surprise, she realized that this had all been planned. Facedown in the water, a jolt of fear shot through me the first time I came face-to-face with a chinook, which aimed straight at me before veering sharply away. Our cars will chide us if we tailgate and watch us as we drive and jolt us awake if are distracted or drifting off to sleep. Jazz helps sell millions of cups of coffee, but sales of jazz records are in dire need of a caffeine jolt. Rob throttled the giant turbines up, and once again the aircraft was beginning to jolt and jar as it raced ahead faster and faster across the rocky terrain. The whole room jarred as a sudden jolt reverberated up through the earth. When you clear a three foot high wall or land a kickflip on a skateboard, you're hit with an instant and intense jolt of happiness and exhilaration. A deep chuckhole creates a severe jolt and can cause a stopping fall where the wheel stops suddenly while momentum carries the cyclist over the handlebars. The decrepit BMD came to a stop with a gear-clanking jolt by the water, and within seconds the soldiers broke out the vodka. There's the John Maynard Keynes character arguing for fiscal stimulus to jolt the economy out of a liquidity trap. Show More Sentences I picked up speed, making for the trees, vaulting a fence, catching my foot and falling flat on my face with a jolt that knocked the wind out of me. I snapped my fingers thinking a sound could jolt her attention. Suddenly the room started shaking, then, with a violent jolt, it stopped. After the initial jolt, there was silence over the intercoms. Sarah is not merely a woman who feels like a bad mother, she is a bad mother, or least she is until circumstances conspire to jolt her into reality. I winced from the abrupt jolt, but he said nothing about it. Some final twitching, a jolt in his chest muscles, a vibration in his hands, and finally it was over. Occasionally you're thrown a jolt by something resembling French pop, but the shock subsides once you're into the next depressive acoustic number. If the 10,000-strong longshoremen go on strike, ports from Seattle to San Diego could shut down, meaning a big jolt to the already floundering US economy. My heart suffered a sudden electric jolt when I realized who had spoken. The division between the first and the second half is marked by a disconcerting jolt in the flow of the film, and the ambiguous ending may infuriate. He climbed into the car and started it up with a deep rumble and a jolt. By having a strapping man say Katherina's words, it is not real and not naturalistic, so it gives the audience a jolt and makes the play double edged. They gave me a jolt of encouragement that is going to buoy me for the rest of my writing life. The free-range creativity is an enormous relief, a jolt of adrenaline. Everything had been old for too long, lazy and rusty and now, it wanted, at a single jolt, to become modern, ultramodern, supertechnical. King was later said to have been within a sneeze or a jolt of extinction. Still, this adrenalized jolt of designer nihilism tapped right into late-capitalist disaffection and premillennial anxiety. The sight of the trashy whitetail buck stalling in the shadows of the Russian olives gave me a jolt, like I had walked into an electric fence. Several strong quakes followed and afters hocks continued to jolt the area. Show More Sentences Interestingly, the biggest jolt comes late in the game, when Theo clobbers an opponent in the head with a cement block. It was the jolt needed to get through the last stretch of the summer. A jolt told me that the Nautilus had bumped the underbelly of the Ice Bank, still quite thick to judge from the hollowness of the accompanying noise. The stunning jolt from the taser gun made the criminal stop fleeing. This past year saw Urlacher jolt ball carriers and pass receivers alike with 90 tackles, six quarterback sacks, three interceptions, and two forced fumbles. Examples from Classical Literature Put a little composition, at a time, into the case, and jolt it with the Roman candle rammer. Just from that you can realize how he had me guessing, for it takes quite some jolt to make me coy. A stiff jolt of elderberry wine drove off the jitters and reasoning returned. I woke disoriented and crabby, without my customary morning jolt of endorphin. But it's kind of a jolt to find that Mrs. garvey is sore on us for all this. Shorty queried anxiously, as Smoke broke a third egg and dexterously thrust him back with a stiff-arm jolt on the breast. But there came a jolt and a jar, the cage settled upon the stope, and the journey was over. I heard the nickering of horses and the jolt of carts as they turned from the bush into the path. At that moment from out of the fog there was a sudden jolt and the whish of a whip. That last jolt, that laid us against the quickset hedge, has done my business. She jilted him with a jolt that knocked his heart out of his mouth. The trios peaceful golden years are suddenly given a much needed jolt when they find a suitcase full of cash buried in the desert. They had their aim disarranged by the sudden jolt and stoppage of the car. At length, a jolt more sever than the others announced to them that they had cleared the last watercourse. Whiplike plots have never been the point of Barthelme's writing, though, and Waveland delivers a jolt despite its weak-tea story line. She leaned forward and pressed her face against the window just as the carriage gave a big jolt. One of these ancient tombstones had been thrust across the track by some malicious person, and gave the train of cars a terrible jolt. The jolt jerks up its passengers in the semidetached steerage. I don't have to have a dustpan ready, in case I should jolt him one. He, too, reined up with a jolt and leaped out of the saddle. Show More Sentences He sat down with a jolt, and glared fiercely at his friend beside him. The next morning she decides to jolt him out of his self-pity with a few well chosen home truths. They could not think of it as anything but a jolt, a hitch, a mere oscillatory indication of the swiftness of their progress. Almost at the instant of impact I turned my bows upward, and then with a shattering jolt we were in collision. You bandy-legged rat, get up there, or I'll give you a jolt. I determined to take a return ticket and jolt my old bones down to Cumberland, on the chance of persuading him to adopt the just, the independent, and the honourable course. To have his bull-like charges stopped and crumpled with a suddenly planted fist upon the end of his snout, or a painful jolt in the short ribs, always surprised Akut. Nutty had had the jolt he needed, but it might be that the first freshness of it would wear away, in which event it would be convenient to have Eustace on the premises. I still went among them in safety, because no jolt in the downward glide had released the increasing charge of explosive animalism that ousted the human day by day. Whether or no, as you fancied, the jolt you gave to his view of the general had anything to do with it, he has not been treating the general well for some time. This Globe despatch awoke the newspaper editors with an unexpected jolt. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of jolt? Words that rhyme with jolt What is the past tense of jolt? What is the plural of jolt? What is the adverb for jolt? What is the adjective for jolt? What is the noun for jolt? Translations for jolt Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words jolo Jolly Roger jollying Jolly jolly jollity Jolt jolted jolting jolts jolty Joly 4-letter Words Starting With j jo jol