How To Use Jolt In A Sentence

U.S. stocks rose as General Motors jolted higher on its visions of a battery-driven future and as financial stocks like J.P. Morgan Chase rebounded despite economic data that suggested a "stagflationary" environment. J.P. Morgan Chase,
The first rutted section of the road jolted the vehicle airborne, slamming my head against the roof.
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.
Life is just like an old time rail journey ... delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed. The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride. Gordon B. Hinckley
It started at four this morning when I was jolted awake by a particularly hideous hypnogogic hallucination. Actually, Today Is Pretty Typical, So Far

But before sleep could sneak one pajamaed toe into the bedsheets of her consciousness, an electric shock jolted her painfully into alertness. The Three Furies
The sound of something clinking loudly against metal jolted Chandra out of her thoughts and she looked up quickly.
Although the road from Maneybhanjang to Sandakphu is motorable, it is a wiser choice to hike it rather than suffer the jolts and bumps of the track.
Bent double in a jolting droshky, I kept asking myself whether I should tell Varia all as it was, or go on deceiving her, and little by little turn her heart from Andrei ... The Diary of a Superfluous Man and other stories
According to contemporary investigation, the processes of succussion or trituration disturb the atomic state of a drug substance by jolting electron (negative charge) out of its orbit.
To blame their youth, however, is to question the gimmick: two dewy adolescent Russians adding a lesbian jolt to teen pop's fading schoolgirl fantasies.
Certain training techniques can take your resistance program to the next level, promoting greater muscle gain, jolting your metabolism, pushing you past a plateau, supercharging your motivation and so much more.
Suddenly the room started shaking, then, with a violent jolt, it stopped.
All this went a long way to restore my self-respect, badly jolted by the morning incident. THE LAST OF THE GENTLEMEN ADVENTURERS: Coming of Age in the Arctic
Some beauty practitioners apply small jolts of electricity to facial muscles to "reprogram" them to lift. The Four Worst Wrinkle Fighters
Melanie experienced a jolt of surprise.
An election that was initially greeted with general disinterest has since been transformed into one that has gripped the nation, due in no small part to the jolt of energy provided by the unexpected, and game changing, emergence of Nick Clegg and the 'Cleggmania' he inspired. UK Election: Candidates Make Final Push For Votes
For eight white-knuckled seconds, he had to try to stay on that jolting, snorting, corkscrewing half-ton of steak on the hoof.
But then, just as you are wondering how they fitted a spycam in your head, it jolts. Times, Sunday Times
The latest jolt from the defending Eastern Conference champions came Wednesday night in a 5-3 victory. USATODAY.com
All of the light fixtures and electronic devices currently plugged in exploded from the jolt of electric energy that had rocketed from the sky.
If it detects a life-threatening arrhythmia, on the other hand, it jolts the heart in an attempt to restore normal rhythm.
Shock isolating means protecting a component from these sudden jolts by mounting it with a shock-absorbing material like neoprene or natural rubber.
Consumer can combine a part joltily with the hand when the choose and buy, especially the joint such as mensal horse, examine have without shake a phenomenon.
Then, suddenly, a jolt of shock went coursing through her as she glanced beyond the double doors, toward the gates of the school.
Pile lush heirloom tomatoes in a footed bowl for a jolt of hot late-summer color on your outdoor table.
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.
So - usual practise - they stick electrodes into his brain to jolt his memory. Times, Sunday Times
After the initial jolt, there was silence over the intercoms.
In this case, it's five days of cycling through Colorado, Utah, and Arizona cost: $1,895 excluding the airfare, and here's the group that has assembled in order to defibrillate their lives with the invigorating jolt of pre-meditated catharsis: Itineraries and Agendas: Bicycles at Work and Play
Largely absent are the spacey Grandaddy synths that occasionally lent the band's debut a pleasant jolt of modernity.
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.
Politeness is like an air cushion; there may be nothing in it,but it eases ours jolts wonderfully.
Life is just like an old time rail journey ... delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed. The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride. Gordon B. Hinckley
Liverpool, then, seemed to be growing in confidence, Luis Suárez - booked early on for a kick out at Michael Dawson - beginning to work his fleet-footed, impish magic, nutmegging opponents, his electricity jolting the Kop awake. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
As the plane touched the ground, there was a massive jolt and we were thrown forwards.
The truck jolted and rattled over the rough ground.
A collision inevitably resulted, abruptly jolting both men back to reality.
Only once during our four-hour conversation does the friendly film-maker on my sofa suddenly jolt into a hardened defensive stance. Times, Sunday Times
I usually try to read on the trip home, but the way the train jolts around, you usually get thrown into people because there's nothing to hold onto.
The old bus was revving its engine, ready to start the jolting journey back towards Madrid. THE WHITE DOVE
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.
As hickish and wild as Ross Perot often appeared to be in making his presidential bid years ago, he did accomplish one thing, and that was send a jolt through Congress that broke loose lots of log jams. Broken Government: How to fix Congress?
The vehicle brakes sharply; husband and wife are jolted against each other. Times, Sunday Times
The Edinburgh side needed to move up a gear to jolt Celtic out of their rhythm.
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?
It is appealing in the way that independent thinking still has the power to appeal to us with the unexpected shock of the cold water that jolts us out of a sluggish morning.
In the early years the wheels had iron bands, so it was a fairly jolty ride to school.
My mother's death gave me a severe jolt.
The independent suspension soaks up all manner of road imperfections from concrete joins to ruddy great holes quietly and without a jolt.
A platform of kinetic cut-and-paste electronica is enriched by waves of horns and choral voices, relentless bass patterns, darting guitars, crisp percussion, jolting changes in meter and Thom Yorke's wheedling vocals sung often without chordal support. Lucinda Williams Snarls, Mary J. Blige Thrills
Welcome to the idiosyncratic world of Boothby Graffoe - the guitarist comic who lulls his audience into a false sense of security before jolting them with well-aimed barbs.
Or spine dash forward clip with towel clamp jolty , the last kinetic clearance is a waist? 5, Di? 1Clearance.
The memory jolted me and fresh tears pricked my eyes.
Next Friday is Bastille Day, but even that famous celebration is unlikely to jolt sleepy Montpellier out of its drowsy charm.
You are jolted back to reality. The Sun
Although the road from Maneybhanjang to Sandakphu is motorable, it is a wiser choice to hike it rather than suffer the jolts and bumps of the track.
The sort of shock we are in now could jolt us out of our determination to squander every human and natural resource in the pursuit of money and power for some, poverty for most.
Suddenly the room started shaking, then, with a violent jolt, it stopped.
What we need in order to brainstorm is to jolt the system, force the brain to think in patterns and perceptions that it has no experience or former guidelines to use. Innovate on Purpose
He prepared a pre-op jolt of Librium, slipped the needle in and out, then rubbed the injection site. DOLL'S EYES
The amniotic fluid and membrane cushion the fetus against bumps and jolts to the mother's body.
The car jolted us badly over the rough road.
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.
Next morning, Mildred was jolted awake by the bell ringing in a much more frantic way than usual.
He slept throughout the entire journey and woke only toward the end of the afternoon as we jolted down the narrow lane to Misenum, where Lucullus had his—well, I was going to call it a house, but the word hardly fits that veritable palace of pleasure, the Villa Cornelia, which he had bought and extended on the coast. CONSPIRATA
We jolted along rough wet roads through an endless banana plantation.
In addition to risks related to surgery, complications can include pain at the implant sites, new pain, infection, lead (thin wire) movement/migration, device problems, interactions with certain other devices or diagnostic equipment, undesirable changes in urinary or bowel function, and uncomfortable stimulation (sometimes described as a jolting or shocking feeling). Undefined
Through this work, he hopes to create a sort of electric shock that will jolt the audience into seeing what hides behind the image.
Her angry words jolted him out of the belief that she loved him.
We jolted along rough wet roads through an endless banana plantation.
Tom jolted out of his dream, wincing as he knocked his elbow against the bedpost.
All of a sudden, a clap of thunder roared in their ears, jolting them back into the world of the living.
The day milk bottles and the neighborhood milkmen were replaced by milk cartons from the grocery store was a jolting one for this young child, as well as for his sympathetic and caring mother. The Sacred Promise
Finally, the train jolted to a halt and the doors opened.
The oil crisis has given the government quite a jolt .
We didn't have enough drugs to go around, so we reserved general anesthesia for those who needed it the most, administered local sedatives to the others, and offered bite-blocks and jolts of bearshine to those strong enough to take it. Asimov's Science Fiction
The Second sounds euphoniously high - spirited to our ears, but in 1803, at the time of its premiere, it gave listeners some serious jolts. 'The Ninth'
I felt a jolt of shock but I still had no idea about the size of the disaster. Times, Sunday Times
Anthony Quinn also got a good jolt or two saying that ‘Once the frights began I was jumping from my seat as if poked in the back by a cattle-prod’.
The carriage jolted through a particularly overeager rut, knocking my still-tender back against the seat and jerking me back to the present.
He thinks your page is made up so it might give him a jolt if he reads this in print. The Sun
Any teacher, at whatever level, might have experienced a jolt of recognition on looking at Gordon Brown's cacographic scrawl, drawing the astonished question: "Is the most powerful man in Britain dyslexic - and if so, how on earth did he keep it secret so long? Ephems of BLB
The oil crisis has given the government quite a jolt .
Therefore, the JOLT survey is seen as a near - to mid-term harbinger of future hiring - and two straight months of declines sends a clear signal that joblessness won't be declining. Hot Air » Top Picks
Datran tried to sleep like Shrav but the jolts and bounces of the vehicle made it impossible.
Then they jolted back down to earth and bumped into the ditch in the middle of the divider. JANAKY AND THE GIANT
I knew that lobotomy and shock now called electroconvulsive therapy or ECT were nearly one in the same -- both assaults on the highest centers of the brain, one with scalpels and hot electrodes, the other with searing jolts of electricity. Dr. Peter Breggin: The Stealth ECT Psychiatrist in Psychiatric Reform
All of this would have taken a few seconds when suddenly there was a bang and the car jolted.
Nick was roused from sleep with a jolt, his beeper sounding loudly next to him.
The horses neighed and whinnied in the grand hall and the castle jolted.
The bottom of the boxes were cushioned with springs to prevent sudden jolts harming the animals.
The latest trend to jolt the watch industry is see-through straps, asymmetrical dials, and funky colours.
He tried once or twice before hopping to the farmhouse, wincing in pain whenever he jolted the injured ankle.
Melanie experienced a jolt of surprise.
The black cloud descended lower over them as the car jolted over the pothole strewn country lane through the hills.
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.
When you advise a woman to dally with men because they might, in exchange, arrange for that woman “to buy everything from electric blankets to hi-fi records wholesale,” then you have violated the signal code of people who were jolted from the middle class in the 1930s: their ardent desire to behave decently because, for a time in their lives, that behavior was all that separated them from the Helen Gurleys of the world. Sex and the Married Man
I almost let go after a violent jolt sent my legs flying.
A violent explosion seemed to jolt the whole ground.
Then, given certain stimuli--Starlight is one--the viruses are jolted into life, into virulence. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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.
I say we airdrop Joltin Joe right into the heart of the Yemen desert. Matthew Yglesias » Finding Balance in Yemen
People felt the first jolt of the earthquake at about 8 a.m.
Certainly, it has turned to promotions in an attempt to jolt itself back to growth. Times, Sunday Times
I'm jolted awake from my nap. Times, Sunday Times
Seeing Nora's advanced pregnancy gives Maxine her own jolt of shock.
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.
The jolting from walking here from the scoober had caused her broken arm to have shooting pains, and this time they weren't stopping.
He slept throughout the entire journey and woke only toward the end of the afternoon as we jolted down the narrow lane to Misenum, where Lucullus had his—well, I was going to call it a house, but the word hardly fits that veritable palace of pleasure, the Villa Cornelia, which he had bought and extended on the coast. CONSPIRATA
Meeting people like this is exciting and scary, but it might be just what you need to jolt yourself out of your funk.
All of a sudden she felt a sharp jolt come from the ship and her hot chocolate slopped right over the edge.
In the courtyard I saw a little cart, with iron brakes underneath it, such as fastidious people use to deaden the jolting of the road; but few men under a lord or baronet would be so particular. Lorna Doone
Few areas of life went unscathed as seasonal habits and rhythms were jolted out of existence. Times, Sunday Times
As he ran down each step another jolt of pain rasped through him like a bandsaw. The Priest
At daybreak, Doune woke with a startled jolt of fear, looking around and telling himself it was only a dream.
THE RING OF MY seven thirty wake-up call jolted me. Holly Would Dream
We were worried that one tiny jolt could worsen her injuries.
Her sharp words seemed to jolt him out of his depression.
Then, given certain stimuli--Starlight is one--the viruses are jolted into life, into virulence. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
He resumed the treadles, staring away before him, jolted over a stone, wabbled, recovered, and began riding faster at once, with his eyes ahead. The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll
Brilliantly translated by Christopher Hampton, directed with hair-trigger timing by 31-year-old Matthew Warchus (who staged it in London), "" Art '' takes that yawny old bore, the play of ideas, and jolts it to life. Paint The Town White
One breathless resident said that he had just seen blood spilling out of the back of an ambulance as it jolted over a bump. Times, Sunday Times
Tristyn screamed and jolted upward and moved her legs in a quick manner in an attempt to escape as quickly as possible.
It's a jolt, a rude awakening, trying to exist without light or water in the home when they are taken away suddenly.
He returned, once again sitting beside me, his hand fell on mine causing a jolt to shock my stomach.
Creakings and the rumbling of wheels could be heard and occasional bumps jolted me.
As the taxi-driver played the brake and accelerator game and jolted him through the dark London streets, Mark considered his position.
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.
The mere realisation that it's possible, the frightening strength and unexpected occurrence of the surge of emotion is enough to give such a jolt to your body and your mind that you never forget.
The next day we were jolting across the roads to Sydney, and with every passing minute my spirits lifted. THE ROAD TO PARADISE ISLAND
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.
He half-crawled toward the overpass, pain jolting his hands and knees as broken glass cut his flesh. EF 5 • by J.C. Towler
When its electrodes are applied across the chest, its sudden pulse of high voltage electricity can jolt the heart back into a normal rhythmic beat. The Sun
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.
We trot along in a whirlwind of dust, blinded, bewildered, jolted, we cling to the bar of the cacolet, shut our eyes, laugh and groan. Sac-Au-Dos 1907
They will sit on the pass that day next to the Szechuan buttons and the marinating fish livers and the prehistorically large cardoons, an incongruous jolt of home. The Sorcerer’s Apprentices
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.
We jolted along rough wet roads through an endless banana plantation.
To Robert's shock Thomas dissolved into violent sobs, his body jolting and shaking.
Rita is not a mere love interest but a heroine, and her presence brings a refreshing jolt of practicality that contrasts with the mind games that preoccupy the male characters.
Simple things like that jolted him back to reality. The Sun
The carriage bumped and jolted on the rough track from the castle.
Dakota was moving onto his second leaf when he was jolted roughly aside.
His six-inch jolt is more the real sleep medicine than the full-arm swing of most geezers. Chapter I
Politeness is like an air cushion; there may be nothing in it,but it eases ours jolts wonderfully.
At the smelter, the aluminum oxide crystals are dissolved in a bath of something called cryolite (sodium aluminum fluoride) and zapped with enormous jolts of electricity (100,000 to 150,000 amps), which strips the oxygen from the aluminum. THE STORY OF STUFF
The Edinburgh side needed to move up a gear to jolt Celtic out of their rhythm.
Suddenly the train jolted to a stop and a bunch of armed men entered, forcing us off the train.
Such formal liberties were intended to jolt the viewer out of complacency into a fresh social outlook.
We jolted along rough wet roads through an endless banana plantation.
The truck jolted and rattled over the rough ground.
He felt a jolt of fear lance through his gut but managed to keep his voice level.
Derryn sat up with a jolt and snatched the shirt from the chair, quickly pulling it on.
A blasting cap, containing fulminate of mercury, could be set off by a spark or by a jolt, causing the dynamite sticks to explode. PAINT THE WIND
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.
The sudden vibration of her phone caused her to jolt, earning an odd stare from the boy sitting next to her.
She soon realized what he was doing with a violent jolt.
Somebody lube up the paddles, my ticker needs a jolt.
The government wants the new curriculum to give a huge jolt to schools to improve literacy. Times, Sunday Times
We embraced, and his lips found mine, a little jolt went down my spine sending a little shiver down it.
A violent explosion seemed to jolt the whole ground.
Round and round the Outlaw spun, advancing in a series of jolting pig-jumps.
You know when you suddenly do a jolt in your sleep? The Sun
He would nod off and then jolt back up near the stops. The Sun
My mother's death gave me a severe jolt.
Father Gannon added, his sudden pronged laughter jolting up her spine.
The scent of roasting coffee beans jolted me out of my postflight torpor. The 310: Boy Trouble
The train jolted into motion.
I more or less slept through flight, wakened only occasionally by those Twilight Zone gremlins on the wings that make planes bump and jolt.
Bending down he took her hand gently, which caused an immediate shock of electricity that jolted her for a moment.
His answer was a sudden jolt from Nick, fierce enough to let Nick slip out of his grasp.
After the initial jolt from the imagery, his work holds up: he's a skillful painter.
A knock jolted all three of them out of their thoughts.
An historic inflationary jolt was delivered - more powerful and intoxicating than anyone could ever have imagined.
We passed a dune-buggy station: coffee, snacks and quad-bikes with fat tyres for riders seeking the adrenalin-jolts of roaring up and down the rose-coloured hillocks of sand.
A sudden noise jolted him into wakefulness.
Juxtaposed Jolt : Wow , this isn't good . He is the complete leader of the second unit.
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.
“I haven’t seen Ingrid since the carnival,” she said, stressing the word carnival to jolt his memory. Stones from the River
His head jolted up; his slate gray eyes stared longingly into my own.
The bus jolted to a halt.
Ms. Purvin, a 36-year-old teacher living in Plano, Tex., said that after she got over the initial jolt of seeing her friend's face, she was happy for the reminder.
When its electrodes are applied across the chest, its sudden pulse of high voltage electricity can jolt the heart back into a normal rhythmic beat. The Sun
The word "alembic," the ancient chemical apparatus used to heat and distill, had jolted the people nearest to Steven, all the men and women on the platforms; she had felt their sudden intake of breath and the straightening of their spines, could still see it in their faces and their posture. A Darker Place
The cab jolted to a violent stop and Rock sprang excitedly into the street.
The unfancied Lancashire side delivered a jolt to City's ambitions with a 3-1 win at Valley Parade.
That she now looks like a kindly old grandmother only heightens the jolt and joke of her sauciness, which may be why she's even more crazily adored than when she flaunted a whisk and an outsize libido as Sue Ann Nivens on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" or found fresh poetry in daffiness as Rose Nylund in "The Golden Girls. NYT > Home Page
THE BLACK-AND-WHITE PHOTOGRAPH jolted the room like a powerfully concussive blast that leaves those in the vicinity damaged but unbloodied. Hi-Ya!
He recited the chants in a somnambular monotone that was punctuated with an occasional shout at odd moments, shouts perhaps intended to jolt into wakefulness members of the audience who had dozed off. The Soulforge
With the Greyhound shuddering and jolting, the pilot inches the aircraft across the deck towards the waiting catapult.
With each flash a great jolt drubbed me till I thought my bones would break.
tonga," its pair of wheels and its white awning rolling and jolting behind two good horses, passes long lines of bullock-carts. Appearances Being Notes of Travel
The Franco-German axis has taken the weight of many disputes, misunderstandings, betrayals and jolting halts.
And if you happen to need a jolt to your beach-softened brain this summer, according to the great Roman philosopher Pliny the Elder, mint exhilarates and awakens the mind. We All Need a Hint of Mint
Determination to pursue his own course was jolted badly.
Politeness is like an air cushion; there may be nothing in it,but it eases ours jolts wonderfully.
The three walked silently on for a few steps, when Dawn jolted suddenly.
So, the Bride had mounted into her handsome chariot, incidentally accompanied by the Bridegroom; and after rolling for a few minutes smoothly over a fair pavement, had begun to jolt through a Slough of Despond, and through a long, long avenue of wrack and ruin. Little Dorrit
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.

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