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    Use "jolting" in a sentence

    jolting example sentences

    jolting


    1. My parents started screaming, the high pitch terror jolting me back onto the side


    2. I’ve come to a full stop in the middle of the pavement but he takes my elbow and, jolting me back into motion, steers me towards the park that backs onto our office block


    3. Jolting as though a dagger had been thrust into his back, Alec nearly slipped from the tall man's grasp


    4. A mild dizziness began to set in and she bit her tongue in hopes of jolting herself out of it


    5. “But, Jolting Joe Stalin ruled for 30 years with a reign of terror


    6. She just shook her head and sobbed out loud, her body jolting as it expelled the air from within her


    7. Not only was there constant jolting, swaying and vibrating, with an associated clamor, but in many places there was only a single set of rails, so that they were literally side-tracked for hours at a time, to permit those in charge of the Polish railway, for reasons of their own, to hold the main line open


    8. Their journey south had been as slow and tiresome as before, with frequent side-tracking and much rocking and jolting over hastily-repaired roadbeds


    9. With a great jolting effort, Anup positions his head across my lap and sighs


    10. jolting, and can be very frustrating to deal with this shit, but today I

    11. manhood pressed against her, it jolting some deep, inner need that


    12. He thought Scumble was carrying a gun and had only intended to frighten him, but MacFife had moved, jolting the car and spoiling his aim


    13. So supersensitive were her drugged senses, that the light touch was like a dislocating impact, jolting her rudely into full wakefulness


    14. With all her strength she slapped Brossard on his right cheek jolting the man out of his slumber


    15. With that fact jolting alertness into him he realized that he had something in his left hand


    16. In a jolting


    17. Waves of jolting adrenaline pumped effortlessly throughout his body, leaving everything virtually numb except his thoughts


    18. But Nangong Ping retaliated by jolting his sword and pierced the priest on


    19. Just then, the van went over a bump in the road, and the jolting movement jarred Kathy’s leg, and a searing pain shot through her ankle with excruciating intensity, causing her to gasp and cry out in agonized pain


    20. My cell phone rang jolting me out of my stupor

    21. As I hovered in that dark place, unconscious of my body, the softest whiff of fumes assaulted my nostrils, slowly but steadily jolting me back to the grim reality: We crashed…in Zombie Land


    22. I walked nearly all the time, the jolting was so intolerable


    23. An inferno of terror burst through her, jolting her thoughts, dulling her instincts


    24. The moment it vanished the cave wall that had rolled sideways, taking Nikko and the stepping stone with it, came to a jolting halt


    25. They were breathless and sticky, covered in sweat, and their knees ached from the constant jolting of their body weight during the descent


    26. “She is alive, but weakened,” he said, jolting me back to attention


    27. "Where did you go?" I asked, jolting as the carriage rolled forward


    28. A jolting pain seared across her back


    29. harvested by jolting on nerves from some exterior source and that does not prove that my thinking comes


    30. Jim mounted the pavement, jolting the two of them, and

    31. Krista grew conscious of a rough jolting motion and painfully opened her eyes to see the cause of the strange jerky movement


    32. What had she done? Had she clumsily touch a somehow unhealed wound? Her eyes averted to his face, a vein jolting out stiffly in his forehead


    33. "Hirondelle" ended by falling asleep, some with open mouths, others with lowered chins, leaning against their neighbour's shoulder, or with their arm passed through the strap, oscillating regularly with the jolting of the carriage; and the reflection of the lantern swinging without, on the crupper of the wheeler; penetrating into the interior through the chocolate calico curtains, threw sanguineous shadows over all these motionless people


    34. All sorts of joyous sounds filled the air; the jolting of a cart rolling afar off in the ruts, the crowing of a cock, repeated again and again, or the gambling of a foal running away under the apple-trees: The pure sky was fretted with rosy clouds; a bluish haze rested upon the cots covered with iris


    35. After much difficulty and jolting, they reached the gate, which Crass unlocked with the key he had obtained from the office earlier in the evening


    36. ‘I feel as if, coming to you, I had landed on a peaceful shore after the noise and jolting of a steamer


    37. When it did arrive, it ran off upon the small side line so easily that the jolting of the points appears to have been entirely unnoticed by the two travellers


    38. Soon he heard the rumble of the trap, and saw from behind the trees how Vassenka, sitting in the hay (unluckily there was no seat in the trap) in his Scotch cap, was driven along the avenue, jolting up and down over


    39. But as soon as the carriage drove out into the street, and he felt it jolting over the uneven road, heard the angry shout of a sledge driver coming towards them, saw in the uncertain light the red blind of a tavern and the shops, this impression was dissipated, and he began to think over his actions, and to wonder whether he was doing right in going to see Anna


    40. He was Gettysburg, was trying to keep her mind from the torturing picture which had worn a groove in her tired mind these past several months—Lieutenant Dallas McLure dying in a jolting ox cart in the rain on the long, terrible retreat into Maryland

    41. Then farm passed Aunt Pitty’s house, jolting over the bumpy road, packed with wounded and dying wagons, ox carts and even private carriages commandeered by the medical corps


    42. Why had she come on this fool’s errand, against all common sense, dragging Melanie and her child? Better that they had died in Atlanta than, tortured by this day of burning sun and jolting wagon, to die in the silent ruins of Tara


    43. and jolting in the wagon that every movement was agony


    44. He eases out of me slowly, and his other hand grabs my hip, holding tight, and then he slams into me, jolting me forward


    45. We slept fitfully, jolting and stopping, changed once in the night, slept again and awoke in an empty carriage, with pine woods passing the windows and the distant view of mountain peaks


    46. Then he lashed his perspiring jades afresh, but indifferent to their jolting, running up against things here and there, not caring if he did, demoralised, and almost weeping with thirst, fatigue, and depression


    47. Then the passengers in the "Hirondelle" ended by falling asleep, some with open mouths, others with lowered chins, leaning against their neighbour's shoulder, or with their arm passed through the strap, oscillating regularly with the jolting of the carriage; and the reflection of the lantern swinging without, on the crupper of the wheeler; penetrating into the interior through the chocolate calico curtains, threw sanguineous shadows over all these motionless people


    48. The blow rattles up her arm, jolting her injured wrist


    49. The van was bucking and jolting


    50. Then the front wheels struck the concrete curb loudly with a jolting crunch




























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    Synonyms for "jolting"

    bumpy jolting jolty jumpy rocky rough vibrating shaking staggering

    "jolting" definitions

    causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements