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Jolted


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Jolt

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Tracks were almost exclusively written on tour, including this jolting number, with an additional four tracks recorded in the studio.
  • (2) So here’s hoping that the electricity of Paris will have given Ms Rudd the sort of shock that might jolt her from half-decent intentions into a real and lasting commitment to act.
  • (3) She writes: Reassurances from the US that short-term measures will be instigated to avert the upcoming debt-ceiling deadline have given European equity markets a jolt upwards, helping to stem some of the risk aversion of the past few days.
  • (4) Although much has been made, since the referendum, of results showing that areas with little migration were most opposed to it, we should not underestimate the jolt that accompanied the effects of free movement within a newly enlarged European Union.
  • (5) Updated at 2.10pm BST 1.47pm BST Over to America, where the latest productivity figures confirm that the US economy took a nasty jolt over the winter, when bad weather gripped the country.
  • (6) The chemical disaster in Bhopal jolted activist groups around the world into renewing their demands for right-to-know legislation granting them broader access to information about hazardous technologies.
  • (7) In "jolting" mice aged 4 months or more there was a marked loss of Purkinje cells and spheroids were present on Purkinje cell axons.
  • (8) The chief executive, Simon Lim, says Tan was jolted by the manager's announcement that he would seek backing from the board for strengthening.
  • (9) But we need a jolt at a national level to regain control of our destiny," Ayrault said.
  • (10) The legislation was passed by the House foreign affairs committee last February but it was stalled until Pyongyang jolted the world by setting off an underground nuclear bomb test.
  • (11) They had endured a jolting four-hour journey from their village of Rorabad, along roads sometimes seeded with Taliban bombs, but still Maraz Gul considers herself relatively lucky compared with neighbours whose children are also wasting away.
  • (12) The central bank needs to convince them that it will do “whatever it takes,” as Draghi put it in July 2012, to jolt the economy out of its deflationary lethargy.
  • (13) On the bare floor of an open-backed military truck, Ariel Sharon's flag-draped coffin jolted along a rough track to a hilltop spot overlooking his ranch on the edge of the Negev desert, where he was laid to rest next to his beloved wife.
  • (14) "I saw him jolt back and put his hands on his face and there was blood there.
  • (15) They also believe that the prime minister has ceded too much ground to Nick Clegg after the Liberal Democrats were jolted by their heavy defeat in the AV referendum in May.
  • (16) Unions say it was the balloting of their members that jolted the government into improving its offer at a late stage, and that some scheme-specific talks have not taken place since the offer was announced.
  • (17) The breaks between these sections jolt us back in time to see the causes of consequences we have already observed.
  • (18) Reformers finally have the jolt in the arm they needed to prevent the positive impact of Snowden’s revelations dribbling away.
  • (19) A magnitude 6.6 aftershock struck an hour later and there were smaller jolts in the region for hours.
  • (20) But his words are jolting and lucid as he recalls a terrifying ordeal.

Shaken


Definition:

  • (p. p.) of Shake
  • (a.) Caused to shake; agitated; as, a shaken bough.
  • (a.) Cracked or checked; split. See Shake, n., 2.
  • (n.) Impaired, as by a shock.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) under one year of age) a pattern emerged which has previously been described as the 'shaken baby syndrome'.
  • (2) Everybody has been shaken by the death of Ann Maguire and the notion that any teacher should lose their life in the classroom.
  • (3) The net lag periods determined spectrophotometrically varied inversely with temperature and were shorter at 5 and 10 degrees C for cultures from shaken versus from statically grown inocula.
  • (4) Lebanon Ever volatile Lebanon has been shaken by documents showing close links between the pro-western government and the US.
  • (5) With two exceptions, the decreases in mRNA levels were dependent on developmental conditions and were not seen when cells were shaken in starvation buffer.
  • (6) Series of 1,3-dihalogeno-5-nitrobenzenes, 3- and 3,5-halogenoanilines, and 2,6-dihalogeno-4-nitroanilines were tested for fungitoxicity against Aspergillus niger, A. oryzae, Trichoderma viride, Myrothecium verrucaria, and Trichophyton mentagrophytes in shaken culture by using Sabouraud dextrose broth enriched with yeast extract as the test medium.
  • (7) When both specimens became positive at the same time, 88% of the shaken cultures had higher growth indices than their nonshaken counterparts.
  • (8) AIDS), and the failure to find single causes even for some well-known diseases, has shaken the widespread conviction that the universe of disease is finite, and that every disease will have a cure.
  • (9) Years of failed talks and prevarication by industrialised countries have shaken his belief in the UN process.
  • (10) But Allardyce’s self-belief isn’t shaken: he moves to Bury as a part-time coach, before being handed his first big management chance in Ireland.
  • (11) Instead he realised that while his teammates were wrestling him on the ground in celebration, he hadn’t yet shaken hands with his opponent, David Goffin.
  • (12) And it has shaken the changes consolidated by Clement Attlee, that deeply uncharismatic but honourable and far-sighted politician.
  • (13) Bahrain, a small Gulf island state where the Shia majority is ruled by the Sunni Al Khalifa dynasty, was shaken in February 2011 by protests known locally as the Pearl Revolution, which ended when Saudi led-forces intervened.
  • (14) Dubbed the Switzerland of South America for its relative wealth and stability, its image would be shaken up with a former guerrilla and self-described "hot head" in charge.
  • (15) If you haven’t seen it,” Clinton said, “you need to see her speech in New Hampshire.” Michelle Obama denounces Trump's rhetoric: 'It has shaken me to my core' Read more In fact, Obama’s oratory was a Clinton campaign highlight Thursday, a much-shared, widely tweeted and overwhelmingly celebrated defense of girls’ and women’s rights not to be demeaned or assaulted by anyone, not a construction worker on the street or the man who would be president.
  • (16) After the vial was sealed and shaken by hand, 1 ml of its headspace gas was taken by disposable syringe and injected into the gas chromatograph.
  • (17) Low-Earth orbit is quickly becoming the realm of the private sector – including the loose agglomeration of companies known collectively as NewSpace, which have shaken human spaceflight progress out of a sluggish period.
  • (18) Twenty known penicillic acid (PA)-producing Aspergillus and Penicillium cultures were grown under various conditions in shaken flasks to determine the highest yielding strains and their requirements for maximum toxin production.
  • (19) The revelations haven shaken one of the stalwarts of Japanese industry.
  • (20) Greater viable-cell counts resulted with the cells that were shaken in lactose buffer than with the control cells when each was incubated at 5 C for several weeks.

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