jarring
Example Sentences
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“I think that was too jarring a shift in the grocery-shopping experience that consumers are accustomed to, and they didn’t buy it, so to speak,” he said.
From MarketWatch
He describes the last of these with gentle clarity as “a lot like the jarring, jangling wrongness of the wrongly hit baseball.”
“I’m still piecing together what happened. …The whole thing was so jarring, I was just trying to get away.”
From Los Angeles Times
As someone’s first introduction to Robyn, that carefree, assertive approach may be jarring.
From Salon
Despite the somewhat jarring presence of Sigourney Weaver in an early trailer, we wouldn’t expect the Star Wars and Alien franchises to somehow be merging.
From Los Angeles Times
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