shocking

Example Sentences

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And Amie Cunat, the artist, painted it not the traditional white, but in shocking Yves Klein blue.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

“They can see the leaves on the trees and the math on the board, and it’s shocking to them.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2026

The judge added the video recorded by Marl-Brock was a "truly shocking piece of evidence".

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026

For the Federal Reserve, the latest data offer some breathing room: It provides evidence that the labor market isn’t collapsing after February’s shocking decline of 133,000 jobs.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

He always smiled as though bull-fighting were a very special secret between the two of us; a rather shocking but really very deep secret that we knew about.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway