Example sentences for: shocks

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

  • Another inconsistency is to be found in the process of knockout , the boxing term and later the metaphoric term referring to anything that amazes or shocks.

  • The scientists were sorely vexed, To classify him so perplexed Their brains that they with rags at bay Called him a horrid name one day, A name that baffles, frights, and shocks us, Ornithorhynchus paradoxus.

  • In fact, the audience laughed all the way through the Office Space preview, experiencing shocks of recognition big and small.

  • David Lynch ( Blue Velvet, Lost Highway ) shocks everyone by directing a G-rated film of the sweet, true story of a 73-year-old farmer who drives 300 miles on a lawnmower to visit his sick brother.

  • The paper indicates that Bradley received mild electrical shocks to treat his arrhythmia on three occasions prior to 1998.


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