Words similar to jolt

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.
She has, happily, recovered from the jolt registering 6.2 on the hostility scale and understands that into each life a little Keck must fall.
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.
The LAT 's headline indicates doubts any new government will be any more capable of swift reform, but what the headline giveth, the subhead taketh away: ".but others say losses may jolt party into action."
Witnesses claim to have seen a fiery volcano erupt from beneath the sea just before the first jolt.