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Example sentences for: jolt

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Witnesses claim to have seen a fiery volcano erupt from beneath the sea just before the first jolt.
So I've been doing this now for (gulp!) 17 years, and while I've never had another story that gave me quite that same jolt, I've never stopped feeling that way about business.
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.
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.
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.