The piano was jarringly out of tune. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Verb (used without object) : The sound of the alarm jarred. ,The window jarred in the frame. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : The burglary violently jarred their sense of security. From Dictionary.com.
Gerry swung an open hand jarringly against Pete's face. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Made Plans] Reference
The view stopped, jarringly, well beyond the blue glare. From Wordnik.com. [The Ringworld Engineers]
The fast-food restaurant was crowded and jarringly noisy. From Wordnik.com. [The Angel Experiment]
But tricks they are, in this jarringly stylized production. From Wordnik.com. [Jeremy Gerard: Kevin Spacey Finds Booze, Love, Peace on O'Neill's Moonlit Farm] Reference
He lowered his feet, and his chair rocked forward jarringly. From Wordnik.com. [Best Kept Secrets]
So close to being right, and yet so jarringly, hopelessly wrong. From Wordnik.com. [Couple Most Likely To]
The bell clanged jarringly, and rough hands pushed Angel forward. From Wordnik.com. [The Angel Experiment]
Jeffrey's tiny utterance was jarringly, almost disturbingly, genuine. From Wordnik.com. [On Defining Marriage] Reference
He landed jarringly and lay there, eyelids still tightly screwed down. From Wordnik.com. [Falcon Street] Reference
He then, a bit jarringly, turned the conversation back to Wall Street. From Wordnik.com. [At CNBC town hall, Obama is asked: 'Is the American dream dead?'] Reference
Something smacked against his face, spun him jarringly into a tree trunk. From Wordnik.com. [Harpist in the Wind]
His foot came down jarringly, as if all the spring were out of his muscles. From Wordnik.com. [The Magic May Return]
His voice, high-pitched and jarringly loud for the occasion, suddenly broke off. From Wordnik.com. [Mother] Reference
Technology revolutions come in two flavors: jarringly fast and imperceptibly slow. From Wordnik.com. [YOUR NEXT COMPUTER] Reference
Sometimes it paused to scratch at the ground; sometimes it leaped and landed jarringly. From Wordnik.com. [Question Quest]
Blue light spilled through the gap, jarringly bright against the rough bark of the oaks. From Wordnik.com. [Stormwarden]
The world cartwheeled around them both, not smoothly, but jarringly, like a paint shaker. From Wordnik.com. [Ice Hunt]
On many issues, the Democratic Party is now home to sometimes jarringly diverse opinions. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Jenkins: Republicans Fiddle with Abortion While America Burns] Reference
It was then that a new note separated itself jarringly from the soft crying of the night. From Wordnik.com. [The Beautiful and Damned] Reference
I noted that it was, perhaps jarringly, filmed on a football field lined with purple seats. From Wordnik.com. [Baltimore rages at MASN's Riggins ad] Reference
The siren was a maniac mechanical scream, a subsonic and supersonic and jarringly painful sound. From Wordnik.com. [Ringworld]
However, the El Dorado Mobile Home Park was jarringly at odds with the pastoral vision he had concocted. From Wordnik.com. [Bread, Fish, Serpent, Stone] Reference
Sometimes the loneliness is generic; more often it is for a voice that will fill a jarringly specific hunger. From Wordnik.com. [Push-Button Age] Reference
A press on the release pedal, the top flew up — too jarringly, if you did not keep hold of the bar with one hand. From Wordnik.com. [Working With the Working Woman] Reference
Beyond the numbers and charts fueling debates in Copenhagen, climate change is jarringly real in some parts of the world. From Wordnik.com. [Trickle Effect] Reference
The ideas they espouse are so jarringly disconnected that I just can't seem to make them resemble anything even close. From Wordnik.com. [Dave Hackel: Huh?] Reference
Last Tuesday the residents of Katmandu were jarringly reminded that their nation is not the idyllic redoubt it used to be. From Wordnik.com. [THE END OF SHANGRI-LA] Reference
Louis's 'cycle smacked jarringly into concrete, turned half around in the turbulence of electromagnetic forces, and toppled. From Wordnik.com. [Ringworld]
In an attempt to put a halt to further jesting, he pounded Kailash jarringly on the back, then followed him out of the armory. From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Hunter]
The ideas they espouse are so jarringly disconnected that I just can't seem to make them resemble anything even close to logical thought. From Wordnik.com. [Dave Hackel: Huh?] Reference
The ideas they espouse are so jarringly disconnected that I just can\'t seem to make them resemble anything even close to logical thought. From Wordnik.com. [Dave Hackel: Huh?] Reference
Most jarringly, some adopted the events as an opportunity to celebrate the Confederacy in the face of the burgeoning civil rights movement. From Wordnik.com. [Va. seeks balance in marking Civil War's 150th anniversary] Reference
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