jolting

How To Use jolting In A Sentence

• I could only think of the wretched cows swaying along in queasy, jolting half-light, then suddenly a lurch and a terrific violence as the world turned upside down. Bird Cloud
• There are two views about these joltingly raw, untempered natural-brass harmonics. Times, Sunday Times
• While the air system is good, it fidgets badly over sharp intrusions like potholes, jarring and jolting the passengers.
• But it may be that the effect is not the same in the magazine because of the variety in the authorship, and because it would be impossibly jolting to read all the short stories in a magazine 'seriatim'. Literature and Life (Complete)
• Ian twisted his body sideways and banged his hip into the frame of the chair, jolting the rear wheels over the edge of the curb.
• Egypt to the Simpkinsville cemetery, and to be transported the entire distance in a twinkling by the apparition of a dreaded woman bearing down upon one is what might be called a jolting experience. In Simpkinsville : character tales,
• Another passenger said the tram kept on jolting to a stop before the driver told passengers to get off.
• The jolting of the cart on a loose stony road awoke me; and I found that we were mounting a steep hill, where the road was a rutty by - road through a field. George Silvermans's Explanation
• The jolting problem was alleviated by using larger wheels and solid rubber tyres.
• The pain was such that it kept jolting me back to wakefulness. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN