1.   After the adrenaline of the first jolt wore off during halftime, Bledsoe had time to collect his thoughts and think about the things he needed to do.

2.   I was there in the room with her before she felt the first jolts.

3.   In Osaka, near the heart of the quake, the gas company has installed meters that instantly shut off the gas supply at the first seismic jolt.

4.   Stick around after that first visceral jolt, however, and you may eventually achieve a more permanent high.

5.   The first jolt did not kill him.

6.   The first jolt is self-inflicted, and the second is delivered during a simulated prisoner confrontation.

7.   The first crash jolts me awake.

8.   The strip featuring that little brat Calvin and his wise tiger companion Hobbes was my morning fix, as necessary as that first jolt of coffee.

9.   The team absorbed the first jolt on the eve of opening day, when starting pitcher John Smoltz aborted his comeback from elbow surgery.

10.   The first jolt threw him off the table but failed to fix his heart.