Sentence examples for jolt one from inspiring English sources
In the latest jolt, one of the shuttered schools, Public School 234 in TriBeCa, may move its 600 students a second time because its temporary site, P.S. 41 in the West Village, is unacceptably crowded.
For the cricket fan, and we are legion, lying back slumped in a deck chair, refreshment in hand, sort of absorbing the soft ebb and flow of a game of cricket … it's almost meditative, with moments of Top Excitement that can jolt one from one's seat … woah!
For ordinary people, war starts with a jolt: one day you are busy with dentist appointments or arranging ballet lessons for your daughter, and then the curtain drops.
At the table, the judge would drop an observation to help jolt one side or another: "He's one of these guys, who, to make a point, will try the case," he said when one of the plaintiffs' lawyers walked in.
Whether or not he wins, Mr. Renzi— who is polling at 30 percent — has given his party a jolt, one that its leaders would do well to heed, some observers say.
Wisteria Lane needed a real jolt, one imagines the writers must have felt, and hitting the narrative chronology hard with a sledgehammer was what they came up with to do the trick.
If it's pure formula you want, you could do worse than The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death (Entertainment One, 15), even as the film could do appreciably better: recycling the mildewed Victorian horror of its predecessor once more without feeling, it offers a few neat jolts, one Jeremy Irvine in appealingly distressed mode and absolutely no reflections on existence.
The women's lives are jolted one day when word comes that Otar, who was working in construction, has died in an accident.
The women's lives are jolted one day when word comes that Otar, who was working in construction, died in an accident.
It's a little odder to see how many veterans are willing to impose such an intense and emotional jolt on loved ones.
It is likely, experts said, that this week's drama will be remembered less as a watershed than as one more jolt on the road to European unity.
