Sentence examples for bit of jolt from inspiring English sources

A senior brigadier's candour about the prospects of beating the Taliban in Afghanistan must have given the new defence secretary John Hutton a bit of jolt just days into his new job.

To baby boomers like me it's gives the heart a bit of jolt to realize that 2010 marks the 50th anniversary of the presidential campaign between John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon.

And what's wrong with a bit of a jolt?

The switch from contemporary action to lengthy, narrated historical flashback is a bit of a jolt.

So maybe this will give it a bit of a jolt".

Tradition gets a bit of a jolt — although a gentle one — with photorealist works by Robert Cottingham and Richard Estes.

"For investors, I think they just got a little bit of a jolt that maybe Google's profits are due to things they can't ultimately stand behind".

"Selling New York" is a bit of a jolt because, at first glance, it looks like a flashback to pre-recession values.

That doesn't make this a bad puzzle, just one that gave me a bit of a jolt toward the end.

Although it gave Seattle's roaring economy a bit of a jolt yesterday, the court ruling did not seem to generate any large sense of panic.

When Microsoft got its legal thrashing from a federal judge today, the Seattle area's roaring economy got a bit of a jolt, too.