Shocking can be categorized as a verb and an adjective.
Adjective |
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| shocking - giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation; "scandalous behavior"; "the wicked rascally shameful conduct of the bankrupt"- Thackeray; "the most shocking book of its time" | ||
| shocking - glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism; "lurid details of the accident" | ||
Verb |
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| shock - strike with disgust or revulsion; "The scandalous behavior of this married woman shocked her friends" | ||
| shock - strike with horror or terror; "The news of the bombing shocked her" | ||
| shock - subject to electrical shocks | ||
| shock - surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off; "I was floored when I heard that I was promoted" | ||
| shock - collect or gather into shocks; "shock grain" | ||
| shock - collide violently | ||
| shock - inflict a trauma upon |
| # | Sentence | ||
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| 1. | adj. | The most shocking book of its time. | |
| 2. | adj. | One man's relentless search for his missing son led him to uncover one of the most shocking crimes in post-war Italy - a tale of satanism and violence that has gripped the country for more than a year. | |
| 3. | adj. | An opinion is shocking only if it is a conviction. | |
| 4. | adj. | His nonsensical behavior is shocking. | |
| 5. | adj. | The time would fail me if I were to recite all the big names in history whose exploits are perfectly irrational and even shocking to the business mind. | |
| 6. | adj. | This is the most shocking thing that ever happened in my life. | |
| 7. | adj. | In my country there is a shocking amount of mathematical ignorance. | |
| 8. | adj. | We don't like to add shocking pictures to our website. | |
| 9. | adj. | That's almost a shocking situation. | |
| 10. | adj. | This is shocking. | |
| 11. | adj. | The accusations are shocking: money laundering, tax evasion and obstruction of justice. | |
| 12. | adj. | It's shocking, isn't it? | |
| 13. | adj. | This is really shocking. | |
| 14. | adj. | It's shocking what they wrote about her in the newspapers. | |
| 15. | adj. | A girl was attacked in the subway. The most shocking thing about it is that no passenger intervened. | |
| 16. | noun | Loss of blood is an important cause of shock. | |
| 17. | noun | It came as a shock to learn that he was injured. | |
| 18. | noun | The armies met in the shock of battle. | |
| 19. | noun | Whole fields of wheat in shock. | |
| 20. | noun | The first shock of the earthquake came shortly after noon while workers were at lunch. | |
| 21. | noun | He had an unruly shock of black hair. | |
| 22. | noun | He was numb with shock. | |
| 23. | noun | All the jars and jolts were smoothed out by the shock absorbers. | |
| 24. | noun | Subjects received a small electric shock when they made the wrong response. | |
| 25. | verb | Shock grain. | |
| 26. | verb | Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate. | |
| 27. | verb | Did the test results shock you? | |
| 28. | verb | I'm gonna shock the world! | |
| 29. | verb | I don't know whether Fadil was joking or trying to shock the psychiatrist, but he claimed that he ate some of Layla's flesh. | |
| 30. | verb | Sami was going to commit a crime that would shock the world. | |
| 31. | verb | What I am about to say may shock you, but it is true. | |
| 32. | verb | What Sami has got to say might shock you. | |
| 33. | verb | Sami liked to shock people. | |
| 34. | verb | China is a sleeping tiger, but once it wakes up, it will shock the world. | |
| 35. | verb | What you're about to learn might shock you. | |
| 36. | verb | What you're about to learn just might shock you. | |
| 37. | verb | You have to stop telling your daughter that she's the best, the prettiest, and the smartest, because it'll shock her when she realizes that's not the case. | |
| 38. | verb | Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate. | |
| 39. | verb | Did the test results shock you? |
| Sentence | |
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| adj. | |
| The most shocking book of its time. |
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| One man's relentless search for his missing son led him to uncover one of the most shocking crimes in post-war Italy - a tale of satanism and violence that has gripped the country for more than a year. |
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| An opinion is shocking only if it is a conviction. | |
| His nonsensical behavior is shocking. | |
| The time would fail me if I were to recite all the big names in history whose exploits are perfectly irrational and even shocking to the business mind. | |
| This is the most shocking thing that ever happened in my life. | |
| In my country there is a shocking amount of mathematical ignorance. | |
| We don't like to add shocking pictures to our website. | |
| That's almost a shocking situation. | |
| This is shocking. | |
| The accusations are shocking: money laundering, tax evasion and obstruction of justice. | |
| It's shocking, isn't it? | |
| This is really shocking. | |
| It's shocking what they wrote about her in the newspapers. | |
| A girl was attacked in the subway. The most shocking thing about it is that no passenger intervened. | |
| noun | |
| Loss of blood is an important cause of shock. |
|
| It came as a shock to learn that he was injured. |
|
| The armies met in the shock of battle. |
|
| Whole fields of wheat in shock. |
|
| The first shock of the earthquake came shortly after noon while workers were at lunch. |
|
| He had an unruly shock of black hair. |
|
| He was numb with shock. |
|
| All the jars and jolts were smoothed out by the shock absorbers. |
|
| Subjects received a small electric shock when they made the wrong response. |
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| verb | |
| Shock grain. |
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| Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate. | |
| Did the test results shock you? | |
| I'm gonna shock the world! | |
| I don't know whether Fadil was joking or trying to shock the psychiatrist, but he claimed that he ate some of Layla's flesh. | |
| Sami was going to commit a crime that would shock the world. | |
| What I am about to say may shock you, but it is true. | |
| What Sami has got to say might shock you. | |
| Sami liked to shock people. | |
| China is a sleeping tiger, but once it wakes up, it will shock the world. | |
| What you're about to learn might shock you. | |
| What you're about to learn just might shock you. | |
| You have to stop telling your daughter that she's the best, the prettiest, and the smartest, because it'll shock her when she realizes that's not the case. | |
| Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate. | |
| Did the test results shock you? | |