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Sentence Examples Suddenly the train jolted to a stop and a bunch of armed men entered, forcing us off the train. The black cloud descended lower over them as the car jolted over the pothole strewn country lane through the hills. I thanked her with my eyes and slowly drifted off to sleep as the car jolted into motion. In the sudden silence my ear drums continue to pulse, as if the barrage of sound jolted them still. I revelled in its aroma, savoured its taste until I was jolted awake into a caffeine deprived state. The sound of something clinking loudly against metal jolted Chandra out of her thoughts and she looked up quickly. My stomach muscles yearned for food, scolding me with sharp pangs that jolted my brain. Creakings and the rumbling of wheels could be heard and occasional bumps jolted me. The carriage jolted through a particularly overeager rut, knocking my still-tender back against the seat and jerking me back to the present. The genocide has also jolted the world into reconsidering how to prosecute mass killers. For 1000 rupees I could be balanced on a crude seat hung from a pole between two thin, reedy men and jolted to the top. Jasmine jolted to a halt and stared aghast into the unholy creature's absent eyes. She jolted slightly in alarm, before leaning back and, cocking her chin to the side, surveyed him in perplexity. Bending down he took her hand gently, which caused an immediate shock of electricity that jolted her for a moment. He reached for the doorknob, but was suddenly jolted with a shock of electricity. A man was found dead beneath a landslide that followed a number of powerful aftershocks that jolted the island on Wednesday morning. A shock jolted through his body as a lab assistant hit him with a rod-like electric device that delivered a dilapidating charge. The blast jolted the tower, killing six people and causing millions of dollars of damage. The main quake and subsequent 20 aftershocks jolted major cities of Pakistan, India, Afghanistan and Bangladesh. Tristyn screamed and jolted upward and moved her legs in a quick manner in an attempt to escape as quickly as possible. Show More Sentences Damien stumbled back a few paces, caught by surprise and jolted by the force of the blow. There was little damage but within 28 hours the city was jolted by 19 tremors. Mehna was jolted hard, as if she'd been electrocuted, and she felt herself dislodge from the tranquilizer. As she was going to insert some cream on the laser burn, the ship jolted and the lights flickered and the ship was steady again. Renae jolted her leg forward at him, kicking Trent's legs crossed on the floor. Mack says he was jolted when his subjects reported receiving telepathic warnings about man's decimation of natural resources. The pangs of hunger afflicting the countryside has jolted the nation into realisation that food security ought to start at a household level. After a few minutes the wagon jolted and moved on the track and then there was a sudden thud that almost made Bligh cry out in fright. Tom jolted out of his dream, wincing as he knocked his elbow against the bedpost. The shuttle jolted again, and an explosion ripped through the rear bulkhead of the passenger cabin. She was dozing lightly when there was a nock on her door, jolted from her sleep she went to the door and opened it a crack. How many babies before mine have been jolted awake by the bumps and cracks in the concrete created by unruly tree roots and water damage? The cab jolted to a violent stop and Rock sprang excitedly into the street. After the pond flashed by, Carlile stared out the window until the train jolted and huffed into the station. One week later, the youngster was jolted into a new world of mountains, crowded markets, bullrings, and spectacle. She also expressed concerns about the safety of people standing up, especially disabled people and pregnant women, if the train suddenly jolted. Ryley was jolted by the power of the system and felt her inside vibrate to the sound of the bass. All of a sudden, the ship jolted from sided to side as if a wave had tried to push it over. Suddenly, the bus jolted to a halt and his head crashed into the seat in front of him. The old are often surprised by the anger of the young, and the privileged jolted by the suddenly revealed bitterness of the disadvantaged. Show More Sentences The whole shield jolted as glistening topaz fire erupted from the blade towards the core of the Striker group. The bones in his arm jolted violently, causing him to retract, clutching it in pain. All of this would have taken a few seconds when suddenly there was a bang and the car jolted. The first rutted section of the road jolted the vehicle airborne, slamming my head against the roof. Caught in my imagining, I miss the U-turn of the escort truck and am jolted by the roaring four-by-four off-roading as it swerves around our vehicle. The three walked silently on for a few steps, when Dawn jolted suddenly. Suddenly their car jolted and there was a very bright light outside. The metallic scritch of a key in the lock jolted me out of my funk. A faint scream from the corpse jolted the men from their shock. The ship suddenly jolted and an explosion occurred afterwards. But I know our hair-trigger reputation has jolted dictators in Libya, North Korea and elsewhere. It's not every day that I'm jolted out of a lazy reverie by an estate agent and a potential purchaser standing in the middle of my bedroom, admiring the view from the window. It needs to be jolted out of any belief that Greeks can be made to return mostly Germany's reckless loans by being plunged into perpetual penury. Each new cast has forced me to be jolted by the newness of the events in the story. In 2006, Russia jolted Georgia's economy by banning imports of Georgian wine and mineral water. As this has become clear, Western Union's shares have been jolted several times. Canadians will remember how the referendum of 1995 jolted them right to the core. The 2008-2009 financial crisis has clearly jolted the shareholders trust in the members of their boards of directors. The crew members, who were jolted and startled, gathered in the wheel-house to assess the situation. The force of the collision derailed the lead locomotive and jolted the passengers, railway employees, and crew on board. Show More Sentences The collision vertically jolted the sea bed along the trench by several meters displacing hundreds of cubic kilometres of water. In addition, it has been noted that a drowsy driver can be jolted into alertness when they are involved in a collision. I'm jolted, frankly, when we hear that we give anaesthetic to the so-called donor when they take organs from him or her. Forty-three children were reportedly killed in the quake, which jolted the village of Nura in a remote mountainous area on the Chinese border. Caritas organisations across Europe are marking one year since a devastating 7.0 earthquake jolted Haiti. An official at the meteorology and geophysics office here said the new trembler, measuring 5,7 on the Richter scale, jolted Aceh at about 11.52 am. The carriage bumped and jolted on the rough track from the castle. I'm jolted awake the next morning by the trumpeting of a conch shell. Dakota was moving onto his second leaf when he was jolted roughly aside. The impact of the vehicle has jolted the whole house and the brickwork has moved by about 2cm, making it impossible to open a door in the kitchen. I noticed the wedding presents still on the sofa so I took them upstairs, then on the way back down I slipped on the last step and jolted my back. A striking pain jolted her as the shock moved over to pain in her leg. I was jolted out of my thoughts by something rather surprising. In another classic instance of more-is-less, Prior, who was jolted by a sudden vision of a neon aleph in Part I, is now shown the better part of the Hebrew alphabet. It pulled into a parking bay and the engine jolted before becoming silent. That collective gasp you hear is the audience jolted by intolerable cruelty in 12 Years a Slave. Then the thwack of 700 pages hitting the floor jolted me awake again. A few well timed shoves jolted the wooden crate that had barred the exit, leading them all up into the eerie silent Southwestern portion of La Fortaleza's courtyard. A ear-splitting neigh jolted him back to his senses, and a sudden flash of white shot towards him, ducking underwater for a split second to lift him up beneath it. The horses neighed and whinnied in the grand hall and the castle jolted. Show More Sentences The lawyers, often personal injury lawyers, are jolted out of their parasitic and banal existence by the novelty of an innocent and deserving client. Saturday's earthquake struck days after a series of four temblors jolted the national capital region. The US financial system has been jolted in the last few days as Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy and Merrill Lynch, fearing a similar-type collapse, agreed to be taken over by the Bank of America. Descend to the Nile valley and be jolted by rutted roads lined with rubbish and packed with crowded jitney cabs, ferrying the working poor from their cramped and airless dwellings to insecure jobs and run-down schools. Even though the talks failed and a new trade regime won't be settled until 2009 or 2010, the negotiating process was jolted forward by the reality of the global food crisis. The story of the Famous 5 has captured the imagination of many women in Britain, and jolted some of us into finding out more about our own great foremothers. Some, permanently jolted out of their suppressive roles and overcome with remorse, become religious zealots or spend the rest of their lives quietly doing charity work as a way of making amends. Undermined by a decade-long economic recession and jolted by the North Korea crisis, Japans stands at a key crossroads on the eve of the november 2003 legislative elections. Someone jolted my arm and the contents of my glass spilled onto an immaculate white dress. I felt obnoxious. They might have been jolted by the positions we have taken, because in the end members of four different political parties will possibly be voting differently on the advisability of sending troops. Mutual nuclear tests by India and Pakistan in May 1998 jolted the world back into realizing that the long-standing problem of nuclear weapons proliferation had not gone away. We are constantly jolted by unforeseen changes. The Swiss authorities, who for decades have apparently ignored the exotic corrupt practices of an organisation within their jurisdiction, were suddenly jolted into action by pressure from a powerful US law-enforcement agency. How often have we been able to make progress at Community level only when Governments have been jolted by a disaster and an ensuing public outcry? Influential private forecaster Elizabeth Steger jolted the trading pit when she was said to have pegged the Florida crop at 123 million boxes. Neurosis is a thrill ride that reads the brain waves of riders as they are taken through a virtual reality world and jolted around on a specially made platform. Examples from Classical Literature He lashed his horse with his whip, and the cart jolted on again through the ruts. Under these eyes Mary Makebelieve's walk became afflicted with a sideward bias which jolted her against her companion. We clambered up to the front seat and jolted off past the little pond and along the road that climbed to the big cornfield. Our carriage jolted over the half-rotted corduroy road which traversed the swamp, and then climbed the long hill leading to the sawmill. The boy was wonderfully jolted up, and his head was bleeding, from cuts which it had got from small stones on the way. What time, the mail-coach lumbered, jolted, rattled, and bumped upon its tedious way, with its three fellow-inscrutables inside. The pain and shock of the fall jolted him back to something like sane consideration of his plight. The carriage jolted and zigzagged, but the group sat undisturbed. And the cab jolted in front of a steamy, greasy shop in a blaze of gas and in the smell of fried fish. Around him he could hear the grumble of jolted cannon as the scurrying horses were lashed toward the front. The country roads seem to be not very good in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. So we bit the detonator down for him, shoved in a fuse, and picked him a good fire-stick, while he jolted up with a couple more stiff ones of gin. He had been apprised that the final hour was Three, and be knew he would be summoned some time earlier, inasmuch as the tumbrils jolted heavily and slowly through the streets. Absorbed in the effort to maintain his equilibrium, he leaned, now forward, now back, in close imitation of the pitching of a carriage when violently jolted. Find more words! 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