Sentence examples for we jolt from inspiring English sources

With my grip now firm, we jolt off.

We jolt in our jeep over backbreaking rocks, where the track of an ancient road has lately been just made out.

Carriages beat out chaotic time signatures as we jolt over the rails – a medley of slamming doors and creaking joints.

"One cannot love one's car and still be able to drive these roads," Joas laughs as we jolt from rut to rut, dust exploding just outside our closed windows.

We jolted and rattled at fifteen miles an hour, past calves the size of big dogs, and cows the size of cows, all of them black and resigned-looking.

The driver, Julio César Galeano, picked me up at my hotel and we jolted over rust-colored dirt roads, past farms and pastoral countryside, toward Cerro Tres Kandú, at about 2,760 feet the highest peak in Paraguay, a country otherwise mostly flat.

Those journeys were among the highlights of my years living there, the barely tuned-in salsa surging out over ancient engine noise and the driver's rosary bashing the cracked windscreen as we jolted over iron bridges and dirt roads, stopping now and again to let a sloth cross.

We got in, our companions' rifle muzzles disomfitingly gravitating towards the back of our heads as we jolted along the potholed road.

"As soon as we hit, we all jolted frontward and sideways, and then the water started coming in around my feet," Ms. McHugh said.

"We were jolted when it happened to us in 1995, and when we went back to prior years we found that things like that had happened before, too," said Ms. Fletcher, a retired chemistry teacher.

The spell was broken; we were jolted into real time.