Sentence examples for violent jolt from inspiring English sources

Then there was another violent jolt," said Badger.

The blast broke Beltran's knee and leg, fractured his lower spine and buried shrapnel in his thigh; the violent jolt caused his brain injury.

Few South Koreans share Shin's enthusiasm for such a violent jolt, but a vocal minority has been increasingly successful in making the South's adamant silence about the North's human-rights record a source of embarrassment for proponents of peaceful coexistence.

Signal inspector Roger Badger, who was travelling in the driver's cab, told the inquest into the 2002 Potters Bar rail crash there had been a "violent jolt" as the train approached the station.

The bitter dispute over abortion in the US has received a violent jolt after a doctor in Kansas, one of the few in the country to perform so-called late-term abortions, was shot dead at a church near his clinic.

Suddenly there was a violent jolt as if someone had kicked my chair.

(You can tell because when they dance he does the robot and she shakes in violent jolts).

A study by an international group of seismologists of Balakot, a town near the centre which was levelled by the violent jolting, threw up some worrying results.

Whether it is the industrial ping of his chords, guitar figures against a pointillistic flute, massed pizzicato against mallet percussion, violent jolts of lower brass or shuddering evocations of water, the listener is made to see through every sonority.

Traumatic brain injury is defined as damage to the brain as a result of injury, often from a violent blow or jolt to the head.

Some of the stories culminate in epiphanies; others hinge on a jolt — a violent act or loss.