With each flash a great jolt drubbed me till I thought my bones would break. |
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The sudden vibration of her phone caused her to jolt, earning an odd stare from the boy sitting next to her. |
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We stood, awkwardly for a full thirty seconds, before he seemed to jolt back to life. |
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He felt a jolt of fear lance through his gut but managed to keep his voice level. |
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But lattes are 90 percent milk and lack the jolt provided by unalloyed caffeine. |
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A win would bring verve to a locker room in need of such a catalyst, an emotional jolt. |
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Nick was roused from sleep with a jolt, his beeper sounding loudly next to him. |
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Suddenly a sharp jolt of pain rang through my entire system as I opened my eyes. |
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The independent suspension soaks up all manner of road imperfections from concrete joins to ruddy great holes quietly and without a jolt. |
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The latest trend to jolt the watch industry is see-through straps, asymmetrical dials, and funky colours. |
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It's a jolt, a rude awakening, trying to exist without light or water in the home when they are taken away suddenly. |
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He received a jolt of electricity from the deadly third rail which carries 750 volts. |
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A bold-striped throw rug was tossed down between the bed and seating area for a jolt of life to some very tired carpet. |
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The jolt from the direct hit sent him flying out of his seat and across the cockpit. |
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Do you ever feel like you just need a jolt of energy and then you'd be able to do anything you set your mind to? |
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It may also be good for the Democrats, who could use a jolt of electricity to shock them out of their smug complacency. |
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So I started thinking about how to do it better, instead of trusting to luck or a jolt of deadline inspiration. |
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A quick jolt in the microwave will restore its soft unctuousness, even if its soupiness is gone. |
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The unfancied Lancashire side delivered a jolt to City's ambitions with a 3-1 win at Valley Parade. |
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All it requires is a flicker of disorientation, an unexpected jolt, or an encounter with a mystery too spooky to explain, and it's off. |
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All of a sudden she felt a sharp jolt come from the ship and her hot chocolate slopped right over the edge. |
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After the grace and concern of the Arabs, this jolt of American culture unnerved me. |
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Derryn sat up with a jolt and snatched the shirt from the chair, quickly pulling it on. |
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This mobile phone add-on provides a 30-second jolt of pleasure to the nether regions whenever someone rings or texts. |
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There was a 7.1 earthquake down south last week, and a quick sharp jolt here on Saturday night. |
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The taxi gave a light jolt as it went over a speed bump and this broke through his rather distressing thoughts. |
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I more or less slept through flight, wakened only occasionally by those Twilight Zone gremlins on the wings that make planes bump and jolt. |
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The ride is very bumpy and dark, forcing the couple to jolt around and into each other. |
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If nothing else, the unexpected jolt of caffeine will get you through the rest of the day. |
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The fish soup that had formed in the less-dense fresh water immediately poured up out of the jar and gave the sharks' olfactory senses a jolt. |
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With a sudden jolt, the primary engines caught and the ship sped skywards on a comet of light. |
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They had almost grown used to the odd stupor when the lift gave a sudden jolt and came to a stop. |
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Largely absent are the spacey Grandaddy synths that occasionally lent the band's debut a pleasant jolt of modernity. |
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The passing of people whom you've known all your days and with whom you worked on many occasions, always comes a jolt. |
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A handful of raw pepitas or dry roasted pumpkin seeds can give you a natural jolt to power through a workout. |
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The morning jolt of mariachi comes from Radio Bilingue, one of the nation's only public radio stations aimed at farmworkers. |
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Such formal liberties were intended to jolt the viewer out of complacency into a fresh social outlook. |
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With a gasp from the motors and a jolt, the ship surged into the overwhelming blackness of space, inky dark except for the sprinkling of stars. |
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His answer was a sudden jolt from Nick, fierce enough to let Nick slip out of his grasp. |
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Draped over the bench like this the body takes the full force of recoil, with no flexibility to absorb the jolt. |
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Meeting people like this is exciting and scary, but it might be just what you need to jolt yourself out of your funk. |
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The only trouble with this form of mental escape is that sooner or later you must come back to earth, the jolt of this being pretty terrific. |
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At daybreak, Doune woke with a startled jolt of fear, looking around and telling himself it was only a dream. |
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All of the light fixtures and electronic devices currently plugged in exploded from the jolt of electric energy that had rocketed from the sky. |
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The effect is lyrics that sound like poems strained through post-modern coffee grounds, full of jolt and flavour. |
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Half a tin of that and you would need another douche circulatoire to jolt your arteries open. |
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Next Friday is Bastille Day, but even that famous celebration is unlikely to jolt sleepy Montpellier out of its drowsy charm. |
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Several strong quakes followed through the night, and aftershocks continued to jolt the area through yesterday evening. |
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Those, though, are too unreal to jolt and sillier than a pack of Girl Scouts jacked up on cotton candy and soda pop. |
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A removable battery cover may jolt a hard drive unacceptably when jogging, albeit imperceptibly to the user. |
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A sharp jolt shook Missy's plane as a missile exploded against the back part of her shield. |
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You could see the agony of it jolt his whole body and knock the last remnant of strength from his legs. |
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He obviously hadn't meant to jolt me that much, because his eyes lit in surprise, too, as he made every effort to catch me in return. |
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They said that crew members told them the idea was to hit the tarmac with the gear on the left side to jolt the right gear loose. |
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Through this work, he hopes to create a sort of electric shock that will jolt the audience into seeing what hides behind the image. |
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This latest atrocity has sent a fresh shock wave to jolt us out of our complacency. |
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She hits downward, a jolt searing through my shoulder blade, I sag visibly. |
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Darin thumps into the chair, wincing as the impact sends a jolt of pain up his spine. |
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A massive jolt of turbulence shook the plane, and there were a few audible gasps. |
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All of a sudden there was a sudden jolt and then the plane began to rock furiously. |
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Every step was a jolt of pain through her body, but she couldn't let Luz know this. |
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Nothing happened for a bit, and I thought he'd said it just to keep us quiet, but then there was a sudden jolt and we jumped to the left a bit. |
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He landed on the stone tiles with an audible thump, and a nasty jolt of fresh pain jumped up his spine. |
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Solicitor Susan Stephenson was working on some papers when there was a violent jolt and she realised the carriage was going over. |
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And one day, five years later, while I was wiping his arm as always, I felt a jolt of movement in his arm. |
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He grinned and picked me up, sending a jolt of surprise through me and making me let out an involuntary shriek of laughter. |
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I got an unpleasant jolt when I realized that it was identical to the one Morgan always wore. |
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Almost immediately, he felt a jolt of apprehension and anger rush through him. |
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He returned, once again sitting beside me, his hand fell on mine causing a jolt to shock my stomach. |
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Then, suddenly, a jolt of shock went coursing through her as she glanced beyond the double doors, toward the gates of the school. |
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When he was born, when I saw him for the first time, the ecstasy that I felt was piercing, electric, transfiguring, a jolt of joy. |
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He anticipates a degree of culture shock and sees such a jolt as an opportunity for exchange of ideas. |
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Middleton says she felt a strong jolt of maternal love when she looked at the first picture of her ultrasound scan. |
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But I was surprised to realise, courtesy of a little jolt of panic, that I can't really remember what to do to keep a kid amused. |
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Gerald's manner is low-key, so when he reacts with a jolt of emotion, it registers. |
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The woman moved to stand next to him, and Lexa felt a jolt of surprise as she recognized the weapon in the man's hand. |
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We embraced, and his lips found mine, a little jolt went down my spine sending a little shiver down it. |
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Pile lush heirloom tomatoes in a footed bowl for a jolt of hot late-summer color on your outdoor table. |
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Just as everybody's life finished flashing before their eyes, the jet began to level out as the wheels hit the runway with a sharp jolt. |
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All of the verbs in this excerpt are polysyllabic, strategically alliterative, and speak to various kinds of action that jolt the reader. |
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Suddenly a jolt of pain seared through my body, like flames being ignited. |
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Ramsey investigators said the marks could have been made by a jolt from a certain kind of stun gun. |
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Kathryn felt a momentary jolt of awe and happiness, but it was soon overwhelmed by spite and hatred for this woman, uttering such lies, such falsehood. |
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He read Borges and admired him, but the title of The Universal History of iniquity gave him an immediate jolt. |
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It succeeds within its own parameters, but it never administers the maximum-voltage jolt of genuine surprise. |
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Seeing Nora's advanced pregnancy gives Maxine her own jolt of shock. |
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Feeling a jolt of surprise in my stomach, I look hesitantly back. |
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The whole point of writing for free online, as Justin Hall had shown, was that it produced a jolt of joy. |
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It sent a jolt of happiness through me and filled me with a love for life. |
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The rising rage in Beth's voice sends a jolt of alarm through Chelsea. |
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With a jolt of surprise, she realized that this had all been planned. |
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Facedown in the water, a jolt of fear shot through me the first time I came face-to-face with a chinook, which aimed straight at me before veering sharply away. |
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Our cars will chide us if we tailgate and watch us as we drive and jolt us awake if are distracted or drifting off to sleep. |
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Jazz helps sell millions of cups of coffee, but sales of jazz records are in dire need of a caffeine jolt. |
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Rob throttled the giant turbines up, and once again the aircraft was beginning to jolt and jar as it raced ahead faster and faster across the rocky terrain. |
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The whole room jarred as a sudden jolt reverberated up through the earth. |
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When you clear a three foot high wall or land a kickflip on a skateboard, you're hit with an instant and intense jolt of happiness and exhilaration. |
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A deep chuckhole creates a severe jolt and can cause a stopping fall where the wheel stops suddenly while momentum carries the cyclist over the handlebars. |
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The decrepit BMD came to a stop with a gear-clanking jolt by the water, and within seconds the soldiers broke out the vodka. |
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There's the John Maynard Keynes character arguing for fiscal stimulus to jolt the economy out of a liquidity trap. |
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I picked up speed, making for the trees, vaulting a fence, catching my foot and falling flat on my face with a jolt that knocked the wind out of me. |
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I snapped my fingers thinking a sound could jolt her attention. |
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Suddenly the room started shaking, then, with a violent jolt, it stopped. |
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After the initial jolt, there was silence over the intercoms. |
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Sarah is not merely a woman who feels like a bad mother, she is a bad mother, or least she is until circumstances conspire to jolt her into reality. |
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I winced from the abrupt jolt, but he said nothing about it. |
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Some final twitching, a jolt in his chest muscles, a vibration in his hands, and finally it was over. |
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Occasionally you're thrown a jolt by something resembling French pop, but the shock subsides once you're into the next depressive acoustic number. |
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If the 10,000-strong longshoremen go on strike, ports from Seattle to San Diego could shut down, meaning a big jolt to the already floundering US economy. |
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My heart suffered a sudden electric jolt when I realized who had spoken. |
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The division between the first and the second half is marked by a disconcerting jolt in the flow of the film, and the ambiguous ending may infuriate. |
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He climbed into the car and started it up with a deep rumble and a jolt. |
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By having a strapping man say Katherina's words, it is not real and not naturalistic, so it gives the audience a jolt and makes the play double edged. |
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They gave me a jolt of encouragement that is going to buoy me for the rest of my writing life. |
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The free-range creativity is an enormous relief, a jolt of adrenaline. |
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Everything had been old for too long, lazy and rusty and now, it wanted, at a single jolt, to become modern, ultramodern, supertechnical. |
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King was later said to have been within a sneeze or a jolt of extinction. |
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Still, this adrenalized jolt of designer nihilism tapped right into late-capitalist disaffection and premillennial anxiety. |
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The sight of the trashy whitetail buck stalling in the shadows of the Russian olives gave me a jolt, like I had walked into an electric fence. |
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Several strong quakes followed and afters hocks continued to jolt the area. |
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Interestingly, the biggest jolt comes late in the game, when Theo clobbers an opponent in the head with a cement block. |
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It was the jolt needed to get through the last stretch of the summer. |
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A jolt told me that the Nautilus had bumped the underbelly of the Ice Bank, still quite thick to judge from the hollowness of the accompanying noise. |
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The stunning jolt from the taser gun made the criminal stop fleeing. |
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This past year saw Urlacher jolt ball carriers and pass receivers alike with 90 tackles, six quarterback sacks, three interceptions, and two forced fumbles. |
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