Example sentences for: shockingly

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

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

  • Meanwhile, Alan Greenspan , the nonflamboyant, noniconic Federal Reserve chairman, punctuated his wedding to NBC's Andrea Mitchell with a pair of kisses that the Washington Post depicted as shockingly passionate.

  • 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.

  • Really, their ambitions are shockingly limited for a planeload of pure predators.

  • In one of the spacious rooms off the garden is a statue of a shockingly drunken Hercules, alleged founder of the ancient town.


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