How To Use Shock In A Sentence

The front end of the Jaguar was on stands and two mechanics were fitting a new shock absorber. A QUESTION OF PRINCIPLE
The acrimony of the dispute has shocked a lot of people.
It also provides ample cushioning with shock-absorbing HydroFlow technology in the heel and forefoot, and has a water-repellant upper.
The microwave dinged and Leon seemed to get a little shocked from the noise.
Labour is naturally a bit shell-shocked finding itself out of office for the first time in 13 years. Times, Sunday Times

Shock,(sentence dictionary) horror! Carl James was seen talking to a woman and it wasn't his wife.
Since 1990, Bradley said two children besides Jessica have been admitted to the hospital with severe streptococcal toxic shock.
Among the refinements are five-way adjustable shocks, stiffer springs and a beefier antiroll bar lacing the rear end. A Boss on the Road With a Peon's Interior
The passengers were badly shocked but unharmed.
i saw mai friend donnies ex bf. hez a sweet guy! then tyler had to talk 2 me and wuz like "i like you" ... i wuz kinda in shock ya kno?!? Zingerbabai Diary Entry
For one thing, it has withstood the shock of tighter fiscal policy. Times, Sunday Times
The media coverage was shocking.
Painter and decorator Geoffrey Jenks was so shocked when he failed a roadside breath test, he felt his Cokes must have been spiked, Kennet magistrates in Devizes heard on Tuesday.
He remembers his shock in the infant class when he was expected to work with the tiniest ration of clay he had ever seen.
The murder sent shock waves through the whole community.
This shocking series meets the law enforcement officers who are on the front line. The Sun
The Holy Alliance was the joint labour of an unfortunate man who had suffered a terrible mental shock and who was trying to pacify his much-disturbed soul, and of an ambitious woman who after a wasted life had lost her beauty and her attraction and who satisfied her vanity and her desire for notoriety by assuming the rôle of self-appointed Messiah of a new and strange creed. The Story of Mankind
He had a shock of brown curls and a wide mouth. Times, Sunday Times
Severe shock can bring on an attack of acne.
The arrest has come as a terrible shock.
This World War II romance film makes Amanda feel all warm and cozy, as only stories of convicts and shell-shocked veterans can.
Your logic is a shock to rational minds everywhere. Think Progress » DOJ official reportedly clears torture architects John Yoo and Jay Bybee.
I'm not easily shocked, but that book really is obscene.
As soon as news of the tragedy was announced, shock waves spread rapidly to all parts of the country.
I was shocked by her appearance, her weak condition and the fact that the trolley was vibrating with her trembling.
To lose him so young, so suddenly and in such a savage way is a devastating shock to our family.
We start a three-way makeout as the entire crowd gapes at us, in shock. Get Laid or Die Trying
Dahl came to admire him, although he described him as “quite an erk,”** and was shocked to discover that he could barely draw. Storyteller
Shocked by the results of the elections, they now want to challenge the validity of the vote.
Solicitors who handle claimant personal injury claims are shocked. Times, Sunday Times
I don't really know him so I was shocked to see how much he favors our grandfather and great-grandfather.
The shell-shocked stowaway was discovered running around the immigration detention centre at Manchester Airport after a flight from Jamaica.
Overeating and drunkenness both violated social moral codes, although the latter appears to have been a much weightier transgression: intoxication is frequently listed among the serious crimes — "pleasurable living," adultery, theft — mentioned by Sahagún's informants. 47 Indigenous drinking practices also shocked Spaniards who had their own ideals of moderation when it came to alcohol consumption, a topic that we look at in Chapter 4. Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
I saw her shock, then shock turned into annoyance, and annoyance turned into anger.
She feigned shock and gasped in mock horror.
She was shocked and horrified but she is sticking by me and says she will help me as best she can. The Sun
He was shocked by the vitriol in Washington and by his own poor judgment.
There's nothing quite like the shock of the alarm going off in the morning.
Her wardrobe is huge and she wants to shock - and that costs serious money. The Sun
As he was walking past a ship chandler's shop, he was shocked to see handcuffs, leg shackles, and thumbscrews in the window.
In such a model, given some flexibility of prices and money wages, the self-adjusting mechanism would return the economy to full employment after a demand shock that was not too large.
But before sleep could sneak one pajamaed toe into the bedsheets of her consciousness, an electric shock jolted her painfully into alertness. The Three Furies
That occurs because a reduction in shock intensity is immediately discriminable provided that it exceeds some threshold change, but a decrease in shock duration is discriminable only when the briefer shock is terminated.
The crew braces for shock, the boat shudders and a giant plume of boat wash is the only mark left in the faint moonlight as the boat races forward into harm's way.
It is shocking that humans can behave with such bestiality towards others.
Bewildered, I watch her eyes flicker with the memory of sudden shock and amazement.
I only regret that I don't have some witty repartee to entertain myself as I write this review, but I think I'm still in shock.
The news gave us a shock.
Their quotes and epigrams take up a sometimes shocking amount of space in columns and essays.
One fragment of her mind reeled in shock but a rational response formed even as the connection spun its thread: Of course.
He was too shocked to give an account of what had happened.
The events of the past week came as a complete shock to the entire team, as one might expect.
Mechanical percussion techniques have been used therapeutically after shock wave lithotripsy to dislodge such calculi from the lower pole of the kidney.
In California a three-person outbreak of streptococcal toxic shock syndrome occurred in patients in a hospital.
Those few women who shocked public feeling with a display of sexual desire were branded either as prostitutes, nymphomaniacs or lunatics.
Having four or more drinks within two hours shocks the immune system into the process. The Sun
To say that her resignation was a shock would be an understatement - it caused panic.
When Kwan shocked Hong Kong by coming out, he was already established as one of the city's best filmmakers, esteemed for his finely tuned aesthetics and perfectly realized tragic heroines.
Since Christiane's doctor has warned her son that she must never experience any more shocks, Alex cossets his mother in their apartment.
It protects the drive against shock from mishandling, increasing the robustness of the devices into which it's integrated.
In front of him sat some rather shellshocked journalists. Times, Sunday Times
The province takes a laissez faire approach in administering the hunting and trapping of wolves in BC, which is based simply on the reproductive potential of the species, and shockingly, without knowledge of wolf numbers. Chris Genovali: The Death Cults Among Us
The same trainer and jockey joined forces yesterday to clinch a shock 50-1 success with Bagan in the curtain-raising handicap.
The boy is shocked at the old man's death and loses his mental balance.
Never apply water to a burn from an electric shock while the casualty is still in contact with the electric current.
First thing that shocks is the decor - everything looks really dated - the sofas seem to be fraying at the edges and the wooden dancefloor is in a poor condition.
Though the dissolve has become part of film punctuation it can still shock or seduce the viewer.
And then, with a shocking crack, the lightning bolt frozen in the sky crashed to the mountaintop, and the arena went entirely dark. AMERICAN GODS
What shocked me was the parents' apparent lack of interest in their child.
A shock-headed boy, breathless from running, flung himself into the room.
Meanwhile, the cognitive dissonance of the experience should shock any uniformitarian in the audience fully awake.
A shock of raven-black hair gripped his scalp tightly and fell down past his shoulders.
I must warn you that this image will shock and frighten you and if you are old or weak please do not look at it.
Bank bosses should remember all this when they stand shocked by the outcry over bumper pay. The Sun
He had never left his village before so arriving in the capital, Manila, was a big culture shock.
Sunday's quake was both an aftershock of last year's tremor, and an earthquake in its own right.
DeLay is starting to resemble the Madam of a Whorehouse claiming that she had no idea what was going on upstairs, and she’s just shocked, shocked I tell you, to discover that the girls were involved in hanky panky. Think Progress » DeLay: ‘I Cannot Run For Office’ In Texas, ‘I’m Ineligible’
Based on blog and comment reactions I've seen, some readers find that element really shocking, and at that point either doff their hat in my direction for how I handled it, or get really angry, either at the story or directly at me. An Interview with Mike Allen
They are shockingly gracile and incredibly long-bodied, with a shape that (when seen in dorsal view) has been likened to that of a champagne flute. A 6 ton model, and a baby that puts on 90 kg a day: rorquals part I
However, some people can have an immediate and more widespread allergic reaction, such as an anaphylactic shock and this can be fatal.
No fluorophore was taken up when either the excimer or the ruby laser was used to generate the shock wave.
When I arrived, I was standing outside a normal brick house, there were no witches passing by or broomsticks parked in the garden, so I felt brave enough to knock on the door, the door was answered by a lady not much older than me, I was in shock!
Although she was lucky not to have been separated from her son, Noreen was shocked by the situation they found themselves in.
Never apply water to a burn from an electric shock while the casualty is still in contact with the electric current.
People with high-arches tend to require greater shock absorption.
We were in shock and disbelief. Times, Sunday Times
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The North Battleford and Walkerton water disasters hit Canadians as a mighty shock.
I was shocked by her radical views.
Fans of David Slade, the acclaimed director of cult hits including the psycho-sexual thriller “Hard Candy” and the graphic novel noirish vampire flick “30 Days of Night,” might be shocked to discover that the man has a sweeter side. TWILIGHT SAGA NEWS FOR MARCH 4TH | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews
Today's news will come as a considerable shock to the Scottish political system.
THE figures for avoidable deaths look shocking, but is it telling the whole story? The Sun
My sister-in-law has recovered from the shock, and we feel safe again now that Pepe is no longer in the house. An unexpected visit
But this shock win gave City a huge lift in their quest to stave off relegation from the Championship. The Sun
Memes, data, information get filtered through multiple channels these days, instantly and so the ones that get through to most people are the ones that are shocking and "tweetable."
Then she pressed herself closer to him, murmuring something in Gaelic, and his expression dissolved in shock. Sick Cycle Carousel
Shocked The Government is planning to abandon huge swathes of land it says cannot be saved. The Sun
Anyone who thinks that bringing up children is easy is in for a big shock .
He flaps as one might, when shocked from deep sleep. Times, Sunday Times
I don't care if they made you laugh, cry, scream in shock or from horror, just tell me what they are!
However, such a shocking thing as violence is hardly hinted at, and the Princess always succeeds, as the Creole lady in _Newton Forster_ said she did with the pirates, in "temporising," while her abductors confine themselves for the most part to the finest "Phébus. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
And the biggest shock was that it was scored by a man who had been the worst player on the pitch up until that point. The Sun
Their hands touched briefly and she almost gasped in shock.
The drama has been heavily trailered on the main channels, focusing on the shocking behaviour of one of the younger detectives, but there is more to it than that.
Tonks's patients are joined by amputees, the shellshocked, the blinded, the wheelchairbound. The Times Literary Supplement
This is one of the most shocking and appalling media smears we have seen - and we have been shocked and appalled many times in the past.
However, bow shocks become wrapped around blunt obstacles and become much weaker the further away they are from the obstacle head.
Other reports have cited severe and uncontrollable pain or bleeding, major injury with shock, impending birth, and uncontrollable mental disturbance.
The shock number compared to 236 reported crimes at the three-day music extravaganza last year. The Sun
Nothing can prepare you for the shock and grief of widowhood.
And here's the shocker: I'm taking the abstinence route with her.
It is shocking in both its subject matter and its brilliance. Times, Sunday Times
Then they either look shocked or disgusted! The Sun
I cannot believe that another attack can be right - however justified it may seem to a nation reeling with shock and anger.
This issue is a Superman story from which Superman is absent--every scene except the Akteon-Holt takedown and is Mr. Akteon's name supposed to recall Actaeon or Mr. Action? includes at least one character directly associated with him, even Maggie Sawyer and Shockwave. Archive 2006-05-01
Did you think I'd ignore the fact that you were suffering from shock?
They are less about winning hearts and minds than inflicting shock and awe. The Times Literary Supplement
Some of these horror stories are real shockers.
The city's most shocking statistic is its high infant mortality rate.
The dominant emotional reaction to the letter was shock and disbelief or anger and indignation.
Uphill it's no slogger either, with barely a jiggle of movement from the shock, even with the bike set to 'freeride' amounts of sag. Singletrack World
They fire off blasts of shockwave soul-punk that makes you feel like you just tongued an electrical socket.
To my dismay, but not utter shock, Jim was sitting at the table with his coffee and paper.
Weeds also can complete the circuit when they touch the wires, sometimes shorting out the fence so it can't shock anything.
Even by the standards of the time, Picton's behaviour shocked: he was recalled to England in 1806 to stand trial for ordering the illegal torture of a slave.
Oh, and a trip to the Moscow state circus is not an adequate substitute for the opera or ballet visit also promised in the tour literature - but we shall draw a veil over some of the turns there, which if nothing else provided the UK visitors with a culture shock. Current Affairs
We had a predictably halting start, but there were no shockers or disasters.
These have been relatively benign and do not suggest any awful shocks to come. Times, Sunday Times
The shock of impact riddled both pilots with confusion, stumbling to regain control of their mechs.
The wingtensity pentagraph yielded shocking, yet entirely accurate, results. ZUG.com > ZUG Live
The machine monitor who has worked for the company for nearly 39 years said the news was a shock.
He was tall with a shock of dark brown hair, flushed schoolboyish cheeks, and a dashing, dimpled smile. Kiss & Break Up
He was very refined in his conversation -- at least, what I call refined -- for he was one of those persons in whose society one is comfortable from the certainty that they will never say anything which can shock other people, or hurt their feelings, be they ever so fastidious or sensitive. Life of Charles Dickens
It's not going to be funny when someone who can't have nut products gets a mouthful of the wrong food and goes into shock.
The economic shocks in late 2000 caused an unexpectedly sharp drop in demand, and inventory began to build up.
There is shock and bewilderment in surrounding mountain villages too, where the earthquake and subsequent aftershocks have caused landslides.
This latest episode in the fraud scandal has shocked a lot of people.
The shock of the explosion was felt over a radius of forty miles.
It was a real culture shock to find herself in London after living on a small island.
Living by a prison was a culture shock at first for many of the families, but as time rolled on, everyone became desensitized by it.
The man exclaimed in shock and pain, reeling out of the bush.
Jane was momentarily shocked the first time she heard the voice, which seemed to come from a person much larger and wilder than Georgie: a banshee, perhaps, or a bushwoman. The Wayward Muse
This was a nasty attack and the woman is still very shocked.
Vivisection, for instance, cannot furnish unimpugnable results, for excessive shock tends of itself to make the response of a tissue abnormal. Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches
I was shocked and petrified at what I saw.
They were interested, sympathetic, but certainly not shocked or horrified. Coping With Sudden Hair Loss
The shock of what he saw and heard has, as I write, put him into a condition that precludes him from talking about it.
Training for these performances often requires the use of whips, tight collars, electric prods and other shocking devices, ankuses, sticks, axe handles, baseball bats, metal pipes, and other tools.
And then there are other, more shocking examples of McDonald's food's weird indestructibility: like this poor burger that's been around for 12 years.
He is shocked by the lack of co-ordination. Times, Sunday Times
In the first Hostel, the movie eventually revealed that its real interest was purely in shock value and the scopophiliac pleasures of dangling eyeballs. Movie Recommendations
His skin was so pale white and atop his head sat a shock of hair as black as the night sky.
Death is an electric shock which our heart receives; the freed soul soars upwards on the wings of electricity. Andersen's Fairy Tales
She was said to be in shock but otherwise unharmed. Times, Sunday Times
She wandered through the house and around the backyard in a benumbed state of shock. The Painter's Wife, a short story
As the story unfolded throughout the past week, I experienced the gamut of emotions: shock, anger, sadness, disgust, confusion.
The team suffered a shock defeat in the first round.
Failing to win the support of his housemates, Mike descends from the roof, giving Clair a nasty shock in the process.
TSX stand for tripple shock x bullet. a full copper bullet with a scall conical opening that allows for expansion in the absence of a lead core ... however I would NOT throw this in the same category as traditional hollow points, it is something compleetely different and one of themost solidly constructed bullets on the market. Can I use a 25-06 with 115 gr winchester silver balistic tip for Elk
If the wars of terror against some states continue, then we will continue to be shocked by another suicide bombing, another execution of a hostage.
A hard drop creates a shock that can cause the heads to slap against the hard drive's platter - pieces of the head can be scattered in the drive, and a microscopic dent can be left on the platter.
Marianna, the duke's daughter, became mute after a shock.
Other northern employers were shocked that ex-slaves refused to work in conditions that would not daunt a farmer in the North. A Renegade History of the United States
You could get a nasty shock from that water heater if it isn't earthed properly.
Shocked by the weird question I hang up, but I immediately regret my automatic response.
It slows as it begins to collide with the interstellar medium, and the point where the solar wind slows down is the termination shock; the point where the interstellar medium and solar wind pressures balance is called the heliopause; the point where the interstellar medium, traveling in the opposite direction, slows down as it collides with the heliosphere is the bow shock. Spacecraft Detects Mysterious "Ribbon" at Edge of Solar System | Universe Today
there was a shocked silence
It's a shocking, audacious moment - one of the few times the film makes you sit up and take notice.
The thief then grabbed her purse as the shocked pensioner raised the alarm by shouting to her husband.
It's hard to pick yourself up after such a terrible shock.
The destruction of Washington had been a profound shock. The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
In this respect, time-linear media resources are also different from the kind of interactive mult-media experiences that an Adobe Shockwave Flash, Silverlight, or a SMIL file can create. Ginger's thoughts » 2009 » November
Hannah McGill called the movie a ‘challenge to apathetic, vapidly amoral cinematic shock tactics’.
This book is scandalous not because of shocking exposés, but rather because of its very publication.
He takes in her dark brown hair, badly cut, and over pale face accentuated by a shocking slash of vibrant red mouth.
It is Swiss-made, shockproof and waterproof to a depth of 30 meters.
Hoping that the nonmetal handle would interrupt a lethal electrical shock, in seconds I was hacking at the conduit like a demented ax murderer. Silver Zombie
It was that polemic which resounded through the ages; its shockwaves can still be felt in later thinkers like Thomas Aquinas (1224-1274) and Zabarella (1533-1589) who carefully examined, though in the end rejected, Philoponus 'anti-eternalist arguments. John Philoponus
She did suffer, however, from the shock of not being entered into the event she had trained for, the 400 m.
As predicted, many get there because of so-called exogenous shocks: a major media announcement, a celebrity endorsement, a dignitary's death.
When a eurozone country experiences an economic shock it cannot devalue its currency to make its exports more competitive, thereby supporting employment. Times, Sunday Times
In this case, the sequence of shocks was terminated.
Incredibly, this shocking misdemeanour endeared him to thousands of hormonally charged schoolgirls, and made him a pin-up in offices around the country.
She caught her breath and allowed the shock to course through her.
Counselor Stephen D. McCullough said the calls were at four times their normal volume, and ranged from people still in shock to a woman who has just one set of clothes that now are mud-caked and studded with glass and debris. Demand for Counseling Surges in Joplin
The reason for the formation of the shockwave is that the sound waves emitted by the airplane interfere constructively on the surface of this cone.
His face turned ghostly white - he got the shock of his life. The Sun
Growing up and finding out their failings came as a huge shock to me. Times, Sunday Times
You would be so shocked and so disgusted that whatever faint chance of your return is left would disappear forever.
But just to witness the shocked disbelief on their anal retentive little faces when I do it will be worth every syllable.
The campaign was directly initiated by a shocking and devastating increase in femicide since the beginning of the year.
The issue before the trial judge was whether the plaintiffs had suffered compensable nervous shock.
But the way they were built might continue to be one of what you call the aftershocks of history. News
In the first episode a shocking, random act of violence sees a young woman knocked to the ground in an unprovoked attack by a stranger. The Sun
There may have been about 150 aftershocks since the weekend earthquake in South Asia.
Her reflection was eerie and the skylight threw a shocking bright light down on top of her.
The classes use defanged snakes and shock collars to teach your dog to avoid the critters. Snakes in the Grass?
The young woman had acquired (right after receiving her fourth -- mandatory -- anthrax shot) a shockingly precipitous mystery disease, eventually diagnosed as a bizarrely speeded-up form of ametropic lateral sclerosis -- she lost in three months the amount of muscle function a middle aged ALS sufferer would lose in four years. Sheila Weller: In This Case, A Soldier Was Treated Beautifully at Walter Reed
The shock of finding herself homeless and possessionless was not nearly as great as the strangeness of realizing that someone wanted her dead. Sonnet of the Sphinx
What came out at the trial by way of evidence was truly shocking at times. Times, Sunday Times

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