In fact, clearly it came as a severe jolt.

Mrs. Rachel felt that she had received a severe mental jolt.

A severe jolt brought an automatic alarm from the computer.

We came down on the trundle dolly with only a severe jolt.

His left knee gave; it had taken a severe jolt from his sprawl.

But what would keep the building from sliding off the lower columns in the case of a severe jolt?

At length a jolt more severe than the others announced to them that they had cleared the last watercourse.

That piece of information gave her a severe jolt of alarm.

That gave her a severe jolt, and suddenly the night was fraught with hidden nuances.

Greg recognized the state; the kind of tranquillity which follows a severe emotional jolt.