jolt
Example Sentences
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Downhill ski racers are not running backs or point guards, however, and don’t make those same jolting lateral moves and therefore, experts say, are better able to compensate for a torn ACL.
From Los Angeles Times
He held on for dear life as the outhouse started jerking and jolting, ’most shaking his teeth loose.
From Literature
When he finally found it, he felt such a jolt of surprise that he cried out as if the paper had burned him.
From Literature
Wednesday’s slide was broader than the software-specific rout that jolted markets Tuesday.
His restraint suits a story in which machine-kind and humankind begin to feel shrink-wrapped together, the ghosts belabored by increasing social pressure, the humans jolted by high-voltage wires.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
