Sentence examples for jolt backward from inspiring English sources

Even as the knife is in deep, he bucks up, and his arms jolt backward, but then, after a moment, he lets go, with a long sigh, a you win.

It counts as its primary element of suspense the question of whether Dan will commit spirit-adultery with the beautiful dead fiancée of a decade ago, whom he keeps bumping into whenever he is jolted backward into the gubernatorial period of Pete Wilson.

(See "Dubai's Jolt Back To Reality").

Then in 2011, Ryan's third season, the Team of Our Time took a jolting step backward, finishing at 8-8 and missing the playoffs.

The reality of the situation slapped me in the face and jolted me backward.

The sudden movement jolted my body backward, and for a long moment we were frozen, twisted in mid-movement, looking into each other's face.

At first, a bit of smoke, and then the entire tent, as if soaked in gasoline, is enveloped in flames, producing a rapidly pluming black cloud that jolts the audience backward.

The novel traces the loops and reversals and jolts of her consciousness, backward and forward in time, and the thread almost never goes slack.

Suddenly, a single dolphin jolted out of the water — backward — and wagged its tail vigorously: here, throw the net here.

The collision -- Schröder's mouth, Meyers Leonard's knee -- jolted the guard's head backward and sent his tooth flying forward. .

People he passed took a half step backward; they seemed physically jolted by the presence of someone so famous.