Sentences with bolt upright
bolt up·right
B b - When I pushed his door open, Trevor was sitting bolt upright in bed.
- To bolt a political party.
- She bolted her breakfast and ran to school.
- The rabbit bolted into its burrow.
- His decision to leave college was a bolt from the blue for his parents.
- The explosive sound caused him to sit bolt upright in his chair.
- The lawyer shot his bolt the first day of the trial and had little to say thereafter.