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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:

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.
Witnesses claim to have seen a fiery volcano erupt from beneath the sea just before the first jolt.
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.
Egoyan has invented a delicious character--Hiditch's celebrity French chef mom--for his wife, the marvelous Arsinée Khanjian, and she gives the movie a jolt of energy whenever she pops up on TV screens or in Hiditch's memory.