JOLTING in a Sentence

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52 example sentences for JOLTING, such as:
1. The sudden jolt plunged her forward.
2. The jolt caused her glasses to fly off.
3. The jolt seemed to jar every bone in her body.
4. And the wagon drove off, rattling and jolting over the frozen road.
5. There are truly jolting challenges waiting along this freedom road.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of JOLTING
jolting
 v.  move or cause to move with a sudden jerky motion
 v.  disturb (someone's) composure
Classic Sentence: (44 in 3 pages)
1  They passed Aunt Pitty's house, jolting over the bumpy road, packed with wounded and dying men, dripping blood into the red dust.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
2  The next morning Scarlett's body was so stiff and sore from the long miles of walking and jolting in the wagon that every movement was agony.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
3  He sat in a rocker in the back of a lumber-wagon, his face pale from the anguish of the jolting.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
4  I tried to go to sleep, but the jolting made me bite my tongue, and I soon began to ache all over.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: I
5  On the way home, when we were lying in the straw, under the jolting and rattling Antonia told me as much of the story as she could.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VIII
6  And the wagon drove off, rattling and jolting over the frozen road.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
7  I was the only inside passenger, jolting away knee-deep in straw, when I came to myself.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LII
8  I feel as if, coming to you, I had landed on a peaceful shore after the noise and jolting of a steamer.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 14
9  Frou-Frou started into a gallop, her left foot forward, made two bounds, and fretting at the tightened reins, passed into a jolting trot, bumping her rider up and down.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 24
10  The chair chuffed slowly up the incline, rocking and jolting on the frozen clods.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
11  They started on the return journey, Clifford jolting cautiously downhill.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
12  Prince Andrew remembered nothing more: he lost consciousness from the terrible pain of being lifted onto the stretcher, the jolting while being moved, and the probing of his wound at the dressing station.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XIX
13  But hardly had he done so before he felt the bed rocking backwards and forwards beneath him as if it were breathing heavily and jolting.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER III
14  He knew, from the diminution in the jolting, when they left the pavements and reached the earth road.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VI—BETWEEN FOUR PLANKS
15  A clashing of chains, the uneasy jolting of a mass, the click of brass skipping along the pavement, a sort of solemn uproar, announced that some sinister construction of iron was approaching.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED
Example Sentence:
1  There are truly jolting challenges waiting along this freedom road.
2  The jolt seemed to jar every bone in her body.
3  The jolt caused her glasses to fly off.
4  The sudden jolt plunged her forward.
5  The jolt from the direct hit sent him flying out of his seat and across the cockpit.
6  Japan's central bank and its main government pension fund said Friday they would pump trillions more yen into the country's sputtering economy, taking a risky new stimulus tack that jolted global markets.
7  We jolted along rough wet roads through an endless banana plantation.
8  Politeness is like an air cushion; there may be nothing in it,but it eases ours jolts wonderfully.