Sentence examples for had jolted from inspiring English sources

He wasn't right for the lead, but he had jolted Jones awake.

To the basement where his body had jolted and jumped to currents of electricity.

Leaping into cold water had jolted him out of his teenage catatonic trance.

Senate Minority Leader Richard J. Codey, a longtime E-ZPass critic, said that the system had jolted from one mishap to another.

What drew me that night was a wake-up call to received ideas about Pop art that had jolted me on previous visits: Malcolm Bailey's white-on-blue painting "Untitled, 1969".

Those officials said the Hamas leader's death had jolted administration officials just as they were accelerating plans for a highly visible and politically significant visit by Israel's prime minister, Ariel Sharon, to Washington, perhaps next month.

It has jolted many Serbs.

Immense federal stimulus has jolted the economy.

An economic boom has jolted prices.

Often, they call because something has jolted them.

But even the possibility has jolted some researchers.