Example sentences for: shockingly

How can you use “shockingly” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The NYT has a front-page story about the shockingly high rate of female suicide in China, which could be as much as five times the rest of the world's average.

  • The president would be wrong to commit perjury about his relations with Lewinsky, "but not perhaps so incredibly and shockingly wrong."

  • The album is "shockingly raw for mainstream pop, with the first-take immediacy of much great reggae" (Eric Weisbard, Spin ). Rolling Stone and USA Today each give it four stars.

  • Freud himself proved a shockingly commanding presence, a man of barely checked intensity lurking in the shadows (he refused Lehrman's requests to come out into the sunlight) who only unstiffened in the presence of his dogs.

  • shockingly criminal?


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