jolt

Example Sentences

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"Then we landed very roughly… Everyone felt it. It was like the plane jolted and you heard the pilot try to brake trying to prevent the collision."

From BBC

It has conquered Silicon Valley, jolted Wall Street and even managed to scramble Anthropic’s fiercest rival.

From The Wall Street Journal

He realized with a jolt that her eyes were not light-blue like her brother’s, but black: black as a peat pool.

From Literature

They also need to assess whether the jolt to demand is big enough to offset much of the economic pain.

From The Wall Street Journal

“This was your final exam,” he said, and a jolt of excitement ran through my body.

From Literature