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Example sentences for: jolt

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

But there was another jolt, reports the Enquirer , when he opened her wedding gift to him: a Stairmaster.
Because the stress is rarely discharged in a single jolt, earthquakes almost always occur in clusters: first, a few small foreshocks; then the strongest quake, or mainshock; then aftershocks.
Westmount Square gives you a sharp but not inelegant jolt back into the 20th century, with the black steel and glass office buildings of Mies van der Rohe.
It's a studied, deliberate, calculating piece of work, a formula Go-For-It picture with a jolt of Mean Streets to give it some edge.
) More important, it has the Farrellys' characteristic mix of misery and brightness: Whenever the view of the working poor threatens to become oppressively self-pitying, the filmmakers pull something nutty out of their hat--a scam, a bit of stoner dialogue, a jolt of rock 'n' roll--to prove that this particular end only looks dead.