Sentence examples for they were jolted from inspiring English sources

They were jolted awake by strong aftershocks early Sunday.

They were jolted into action by AWARE's alleged pro-gay agenda, particularly in sex-education courses taught at some schools.

The family was watching television that afternoon when they were jolted by the news that an Army maintenance unit had been ambushed early that morning.

They were jolted by a seismic upheaval: Watt's near-fatal struggle with a rare auto-immune disease, Churg-Strauss syndrome, which he documented in his 1996 memoir, Patient.

In the second game, they were jolted by a tying, two-run A-Rod shot in the bottom of the ninth and a walkoff by Mark Teixeira in the eleventh.

Even after they were jolted into action by the subway attack, which killed 13 people and sickened 6,000 more, it took the police 17 years to apprehend Mr. Takahashi and two fellow fugitives.

I bear witness that there is no other God but Allah.' Many of the passengers in Greengrass's film scream: 'Oh God!' as they are jolted out of life, but their cries are expletives.

But these lovers are great company: retro-snobs surveying the modern world with a sophisticated disdain acquired over centuries – at least until they're jolted out of their comfort zone.

Two floors underground, Aleppo's luckier orphans sleep as safely as anyone can in a city at war, though they are jolted awake regularly by bombs ripping apart the streets above them.

Audiences were jolted by it.

Once-shy liberals were jolted.