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My parents are very conventional people that would never shock or surprise anyone.

The discovery that his father was still alive was a great shock to him.

I got an electric shock when I tried to change the lightbulb.

He gasped in shock when the policeman told him his wife had been in a car accident.

The United States has never really recovered from the shock of losing the war in Vietnam.

Alvin Toffler described future shock as the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.

After spending about ten years overseas, I experienced a bit of culture shock coming back to live in England.

It will take a long time for the American people to recover from the shock of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

He got a bad shock when he tried to unscrew the lightbulb.

The young boy began shivering in shock when told of the death of his mother.

The news of the death of her father came as a terrible shock to her.

We need to fix our toaster.

I got an electric shock when I tried to plug it in this morning.

Punk hairstyles which used to shock people a few years ago now seem almost commonplace.

George Bernard Shaw once said that it's all that the young can do for the old to shock them, and keep them up to date.

A female pharaoh was unknown in Egypt before Hatshepsut, so in order not to shock convention, she had herself portrayed in male costume, with a beard, and without breasts.

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