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Example sentences for: jarring

How can you use “jarring” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

"For those who have spent years of adulthood circling around questions of faith, it may be a little jarring to witness Trisha's hasty conversion," says Rebecca Ascher-Walsh in Entertainment Weekly . Most critics describe it as a departure from King's usual style--it's overtly religious and a mere 250 pages long.
The action comes in jarring spasms.
And why do those pictures always feel as if they've been honed with the help of focus groups in suburban shopping malls to ensure that no aspect will be jarring to the middlest of middle-class viewers?
Does a cowboy all the way down to his liver `a full-fledged 100% cowboy' derive from the damage done to one's liver by the jarring suffered in breaking horses?
For ideological free-marketeers (like myself), theories like Smith and Wright's can be intellectually jarring.