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Example sentences for: shocking

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' ") Primed with liquor, he commits a shocking act of violence, then flees Texas for a new life--sinking his car in a swamp and baptizing himself "the Apostle E.F."
Besides, tourists are fun-even more likely than New Yorkers to say something shocking, enlightening, or both.
Happiness certainly has foul language, as well as a (brief) shot of Joy's uncovered breasts, but what's truly shocking is its unblinking gaze--hard and clinical but also nonjudgmental.
(Author Taylor Branch recounts a shocking episode in which the FBI tried to make King commit suicide, as noted in this review of his book.)
"The slumping economy, which forced many companies to cut jobs, was singled out as a prime reason for the shocking phenomenon," the paper said.