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Example sentences for: jolt

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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.
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.
But there was another jolt, reports the Enquirer , when he opened her wedding gift to him: a Stairmaster.
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."
) 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.