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• The amazement that painting sparked in me lasted until the tour guide jolted me out of it.From the entry amazement
• The stunning jolt from the taser gun made the criminal stop fleeing.From the entry stunning
• King was later said to have been within a sneeze or a jolt of extinction.2014 January 20, Michael Daly, “The Black and White Men Who Saved Martin Luther King’s Life”, in The Daily Beast, archived from the…. From the entry life-saving
• Still, this adrenalized jolt of designer nihilism tapped right into late-capitalist disaffection and premillennial anxiety.2009 January 2, Dennis Lim, “Journey of a Director, From Night Creature to Tender Time Traveler”, in New York Times. From the entry adrenalize
• But “Configuration,” a zipperlike jolt of ascent from Coltrane’s late period, played to everyone’s strengths.2009 September 25, Nate Chinen, “It Feels Like Home: The Sounds of Coltrane”, in New York Times. From the entry zipperlike
• Someone jolted my arm and the contents of my glass spilled onto an immaculate white dress.1989, Antônio Torres, Blues for a Lost Childhood: A Novel of Brazil, Columbia, La.: Readers International, →ISBN, page 41. From the entry obnoxious
• One day that next spring, a long line of wagons jolted over the cartway north from Hadley.1964, Clifford Lindsey Alderman, chapter 14, in The Vengeance of Abel Wright, Garden City, New York: Doubleday, page 186. From the entry abulge
• A good many more ess feminine nouns jolt the mid-twentieth century reader of Howells.[1960, The Georgia Review, volume 14, page 385. From the entry New Yorkeress
• The madness is a sort of souffléd Hellzapoppin, of light jolts and quick surprises.1958, Briton Hadden, Henry Robinson Luce, Time - Volume 72, page 80. From the entry soufflé
• Either that or the reflection stares accursingly and jolts the mind into arriving at a decision.1955 October 29, Tom Sims (King Features Syndicate, Inc.), “Good Morning”, in Sand Mountain Reporter, volume 1, number 62, Albertville…. From the entry accursingly
• The buggy jolted on, the stout, wellkept team eagering, homing, barning.1932, William Faulkner, Light in August. From the entry eager
• Petersburg, but then, with a jolt, it begins to atrophy.2013 October 13, Ellen Barry, “The Russia Left Behind: A journey through a heartland on the slow road to ruin”, in The New York Times. From the entry atrophy
• Doug Cayce, 35, was right there with him, hoping a pumpkin-spice latte might provide the jolt he needed.2005 October 27, Virginia Groark, Kayce Ataiyero, “Sox fans a mixed bag of giddy, groggy”, in Chicago Tribune, section 1, page 9. From the entry pumpkin-spice latte
• Thrilly jolts of ecstasy electrified his junkie loins.2004, Iceberg Slim, Airtight Willie & Me. From the entry thrilly
• Again the cat jolted the bed with a pounce.1999, Niki Anderson, Inspurrrational Stories for Cat Lovers. From the entry pounce
• The French Revolution had so jarred and jolted “nearly the whole of the universe” that time had been sped up.1996, Hillel Schwartz, Century's End: an orientation manual toward the year 2000, revised and abridged edition, New York: Doubleday…. From the entry mal du siècle
• The wagon jolted on, carrying me I knew not whither.1918 September, Willa Sibert Cather, chapter I, in My Ántonia, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company […], →OCLC, book I…. From the entry whither
• The popular Chinese coffee chain rolled out the so-called “sauce-flavored latte” with a jolt of liquor for 38 yuan ($5.20) on Monday.2023 September 4, Berry Wang, Michelle Toh, “Moutai coffee, anyone? Luckin is adding the fiery liquor to its lattes”, in CNN Business…. From the entry yuan
• Tradition gets a bit of a jolt — although a gentle one — with photorealist works by Robert Cottingham and Richard Estes.2007 June 1, Martha Schwendener, “In the 21st Century, the Persistence of Tradition”, in New York Times. From the entry photorealist
• "The bombing was a sudden jolt and we are back to living on the edge again," said Gonsherovsky, 23, in Jerusalem's crowded Mahane Yehuda market.2006 April 19, “Tel Aviv bombing shatters lull in violence”, in IOL News (Reuters-Sapa-AP), retrieved 13 Oct 2011. From the entry live on the edge
• They would talk while Mrs Costello smoked and drank Martini, and then there would be the sudden, jolting sound of the hoover being switched on.1999, Ruth Thomas, The Dance Settee and Other Stories, Edinburgh: Polygon, →ISBN, page 153. From the entry martini
• Everything had been old for too long, lazy and rusty and now, it wanted, at a single jolt, to become modern, ultramodern, supertechnical.1964, Stefan Zweig, The world of yesterday: an autobiography, page 331. From the entry supertechnical
• This would really jolt Le Chiffre.1953, Ian Fleming, “The Deadly Tube”, in Casino Royale, London: Pan Books, published 1955, page 86. From the entry banco
• The tilt hooding the spring-cart was insecure - even the jolt from the down-and-up curving river bend near the house had brought it down twice.1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia…. From the entry tilt
• The CDC defines a TBI as a “disruption in the normal function of the brain” that’s typically caused by a bump, a blow, or a jolt to the head.2020 January 26, Leah Asmelash, “Why traumatic brain injuries can be dangerous”, in CNN. From the entry TBI
• In nearby Longnan in the neighboring province of Gansu, also jolted by the quake, eight people died in landslides caused by heavy rain, the People’s Daily said.2017 August 8, Christian Shepherd, David Stanway, Michael Martina, Faith Hung, Ben Blanchard, “Quake in China's Sichuan kills 19…. From the entry Longnan
• At 2:28 p. m. on Monday, exactly a week after an 8.O-magnitude earthquake jolted Wenchuan, the 1.3-billion Chinese people stopped to observe three minutes in silence for the victims.2011, 听听中国怎么说 [China Invites The World To Listen], Beijing, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 271. From the entry p. m.
• At 2:28 p. m. on Monday, exactly a week after an 8.0-magnitude earthquake jolted Wenchuan, the 1.3-billion Chinese people stopped to observe three minutes in silence for the victims.2011, “Wenchuan And Yushu Quakes”, in 听听中国怎么说 [China Invites The World To Listen], Beijing, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 271. From the entry Wenchuan
• After Bernanke's first semiannual testimony before Congress in February, I wrote to my clients that his appearance was essentially a wet firecracker—he did not jolt the markets.2006 June 18, Richard Yamarone, “Confusion From the Fed Head”, in Washington Post, retrieved 16 Oct 2017. From the entry wet firecracker
• A jolt told me that the Nautilus had bumped the underbelly of the Ice Bank, still quite thick to judge from the hollowness of the accompanying noise.1993, Jules Verne, chapter 37, in Walter James Miller, Frederick Paul Walter, transl., Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues under the…. From the entry underbelly
• If there is an abnormal interceptive contact the transducer is jolted more than once in a single closure of the jaws and a double sound is produced (Fig. 29.4).1976, Derek John Anderson, Declan John Anderson, Bruce Matthews, Mastication: Proceedings of a Symposium on the Clinical and Physiological…. From the entry interceptive
• On the other hand, I just thought of the scene in DIABOLIK in which the audience at the press conference receive a jolt of laughing gas, which is very Avengersesque.1999 September 10, David Scott Lessenberry, “OTP-They Just Don't Get It...”, in alt.tv.mst3k (Usenet). From the entry Avengersesque

Meaning of jolt

1. verb To push or shake abruptly and roughly.
2. verb To knock sharply.
3. verb To shock (someone) into taking action or being alert.

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How do you use jolt in a sentence?

Jolt is used as a verb and noun. For example: “The bus jolted its passengers at every turn.”

What is a short sentence with jolt?

“Her untimely death jolted us all.”

What does jolt mean?

Jolt means to push or shake abruptly and roughly.