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Examples of jolting
jolting
It wasn't long before he was greeted with a jolting strike, and he set the hook.
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The abstract beauty of the canisters is a jolting contrast to their grim origins.
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Computerizing old land records is jolting rural India out of the 19th century.
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This movie is as well-crafted as a Swiss watch and as jolting as a fire alarm.
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Smoking brings a faster, jolting high, quicker addiction and more ill effects.
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This Stepfather isn't as jolting as the 1987 original, which starred Terry O'Quinn.
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His comeback game in the Premier League was the jolting defeat at Blackburn Rovers.
From the guardian.co.uk
The mansion, formerly a discreet shade of white, is now a jolting mint green.
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The races have the pounding force of thunder and the jolting immediacy of lightning.
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- A sudden jarring impact; "the door closed with a jolt"; "all the jars and jolts were smoothed out by the shock absorbers"
- Move or cause to move with a sudden jerky motion
- Disturb (someone's) composure; "The audience was jolted by the play"
- Jerk: an abrupt spasmodic movement
- (jolted) bumped or shaken jerkily; "the jolted passengers"
- (jolted) disturbed psychologically as if by a physical jolt or shock; "retrieved his named from her jolted memory"; "the accident left her badly shaken"
- (jolting) rough: causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements; "a rough ride"
- Jolt (Helen "Hallie" Takahama) is a fictional character, a superheroine in the Marvel Universe and a member of the Thunderbolts and Young Allies.
- The Jolt were a Scottish band formed in Glasgow in 1976.
