English example sentences with "jarring"

When I tried to move the desk, one of its legs made a jarring sound as it scraped across the floor.
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It's very jarring to hear uncensored songs with explicit lyrics playing in stores.
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The transition between the scenes was jarring.
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The old man spoke and, with a feeble throw, / at Pyrrhus with a harmless dart he drave. / The jarring metal blunts it, and below / the shield-boss, down it hangs, and foils the purposed blow.
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That's a jarring choice of words.
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To keep a nut from unscrewing by jarring, etc., screw it down until it jams, as it is called, firmly against the surface it rests on.
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With a top speed of 160 kilometers per hour, sleek new bullet trains will cut a bone-jarring 15-hour road trip down to under four hours, promising a new tide of trade and tourists from China for one of Southeast Asia’s poorest countries.
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He felt the sun very hot upon his shoulders, and he heard the harsh, insistent jarring of a tern that hovered and circled with forked tail and sharp white wings in the sunlight just above their heads; but all the time he stood staring into the good old gentleman's face.
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