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Meaning shocking meaning
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Examples shocking examples
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Simple sentences
I found that absolutely shocking.
The truth will be shocking for many people.
An opinion is shocking only if it is a conviction.
In my country, there is a shocking amount of mathematical ignorance.
This is really shocking.
It's shocking what they wrote about her in the newspapers.
This is shocking.
Uncover the horrific truth of this shocking story.
The results were shocking.
It was shocking.
What I saw was shocking.
We've made a shocking discovery.
Movie subtitles
Stand clear.' Shocking in three.
DEFIBRILLATOR: 'Ready to shock.' Shocking after three.
The list is shocking.
I know it's all very shocking.
When a woman who. oh, it's too shocking. I don't know how to tell you.
Will you swear by almighty god that you and your family and that agent of yours won't breathe a word of this shocking thing to a mortal soul?
An unexpected and shocking picture we saw in the school.
It's shocking.
How shocking!
Dr. Meade? - I need your approval. for something we want to do that's rather shocking.
It's shocking what she's doing to my brother.
Reduce taxes! Our national debt is something shocking!
But how shocking!
Is it shocking for a young lady to be concerned about her sister?
Oh, how shocking!
Shocking murder mystery.
Yes it was in shocking condition when I got hold of it but I had it restored.
At least you know now why I left London amidst the most shocking crime wave since Jack the Ripper.
But a woman's only future is to marry and fulfil the duties. Nonsense. I'd have made a shocking wife anyway.
Look here, old man. This is shocking.
It's selfish, it's shocking.
Shocking murder.
Dear, dear, how shocking.
How divinely shocking!
Shocking, but generous.
YOU'RE AN AMAZINGLY PRETTY GIRL, MA'AM, BUT A SHOCKING FLIRT.
Our national debt is something shocking!
Shocking, isn't it?
Although I'm broad-minded myself, it was a bit shocking too.
So? - I thought a pastor. might find that shocking.
It's shocking to see him in such a state.
Is that shocking or impolite?
Would you like to know something rather shocking?
It's terrible, it's shocking.
News and current affairs
This scene remains shocking, but, like most science fiction, it has aged.
The arrests in Ghana, while typical of African bigotry towards gays, were all the more shocking because gays and lesbians actually thrive in Ghana's capital, Accra.
But the most shocking aspect of the move is that arts and humanities departments will be targeted more aggressively than science and engineering, which are supposedly better for business.
Actually, British attitudes were even more shocking.
Again, his talent for shocking statements was an asset, not a hindrance.
In addition to the shocking waste of lives and money from the Iraq war, America has done the world another great disservice.
As a result, the US has ended up with the world's highest incarceration rate - a shocking 743 people per 100,000!
One of the shocking realities in recent years is that America now has almost the lowest degree of social mobility of the high-income countries.
But as soon as we engage with the details of the prosecutions, a shocking picture emerges: some of the key evidence in the cases is clearly planted, while much of the rest remains circumstantial at best.
The implication of this position is profound and shocking.
The nefarious practices and management failings uncovered during the yearlong investigation that led to the fines were shocking.
That decision followed an undercover investigation by Animal Defenders International, which exposed shocking abuse of circus animals.
A shocking three million Syrian children have now been displaced.
But the American media more or less brushed aside this shocking incident, too.
By any measure, the level of suffering in Syria is shocking.
Some consider the Palestinian prisoners' release a mistake, legally and ethically, and a shocking injustice to the families of their victims.
But what is most shocking is that all of this happened in the United Kingdom.
The Bush administration's negligence is especially shocking given the remarkable amount of scientific expertise that exists in the US.
A growth slowdown is hardly shocking for an export-led economy. But China is in much better shape than the rest of the world.
However, the assault from Japan, a speck of dust in its own backyard, shattered this self-assurance and was experienced as a shocking and intolerable humiliation.
And the worsening situation in the Middle East has, of course, played a key role in this, particularly the shocking images from Gaza.
The results were shocking: whatever the impact of radiation on animals may be, the effects of human habitation seem to have been a lot worse.
He envisaged trade, changed rules of the game, or an important innovation shocking markets, the result being that prices, players, and rules of the game change throughout the entire economy.