Sentence examples for massive jolt from inspiring English sources

We were moored when I was woken shortly before midnight by a massive jolt.

All of this was a massive jolt to the grim prevailing orthodoxy of the Daily Mail group.

This cameo by a modern rock star delivers a massive jolt to the movie's hypnotic serenity, which isn't entirely a bad thing.

One evening in April, driving home from a university function, I was stopped in freeway traffic caused by roadworks somewhere up ahead when I felt a massive jolt.

In those tense moments of desperation, Johnson is a virtual power station, capable of sending a massive jolt through the atmosphere and thousands of fans into happy delirium with a casual flick of the wrist.

But given a massive jolt by the earthquake and its knock-on effects, Japanese businesses are now considering previously unthinkable measures such as telecommuting.

The economy needs a massive fiscal jolt, and instead is likely to get austerity.

The super-secret NSA Utah Data Center is suffering from a number of massive electrical jolts which, in turn, have melted hundreds of thousands of dollars of equipment.

In 2008 after a massive earthquake jolted Wenchuan, China, we reported an effect that we termed a "Psychological Typhoon Eye": the closer to the center of the devastated area, the lower the level of concern felt by residents about safety and health.

"Suddenly there was a massive bang, the train jolted.

That's why "massive open online courses" (Moocs) have been such a jolt to the university system in several parts of the world.