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How to use the word shocked in a Sentence?

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I am incredibly shocked and disgusted by the American lackluster response to the health and safety of their citizens.

– Muna Daoud

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have asked business to solve problems that we don’t want government to solve anymore, we’re happy to have them do it and then shocked when they act like a business again.

– Bryant Simon

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I spent the whole night just meeting Trail Aaron family and playing pickleball and cornhole, i think his family was a little shocked, but it was an awesome night.

– Patricia Toro It

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I keep him up on everything that we’re doing, he seems very plugged in at all times. Sometimes I’m shocked at how he knows all these things. I’m like, ‘How do you know all this stuff?’.

– Marjorie Taylor

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1 year ago

People are really shocked and disgusted, even longtime staffers. You would think after all we’ve been through nothing could surprise us. But this is unprecedented.

– Fox News

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1 year ago

You look at India, you look at the Philippines, you look at Australia, you look at the United States, Canada or Japan. They (China) have had in just the last three months a military or some type of confrontation with every country. And then they’re shocked that countries are taking their own steps for deterrence to protect themselves. What did they think they were going to do?

– Rahm Emanuel

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’ve talked to thousands of our Starbucks partners, i was shocked, stunned to hear the loneliness, the anxiety, the fracturing of trust in government, fracturing of trust in companies, fracturing of trust in families, the lack of hope in terms of opportunity.

– Howard Schultz

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Seriously What the f**k? I’m actually shocked. It needs to stop immediately, like tonight. It’s measurably hurting the company. The stock price is down. Not a joke.

– Sean Hannity

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Please get her fired, seriously What the f**k? I’m actually shocked. It needs to stop immediately, like tonight. It’s measurably hurting the company. The stock price is down. Not a joke.

– Tucker Carlson

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1 year ago

Please get her fired, seriously … what the f**k? I’m actually shocked … It needs to stop immediately, like tonight. It’s measurably hurting the company.

– Tucker Carlson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think we really shocked them that we were dating and we were immediately serious.

– Graham Kidner Vickie

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Me and my coworkers were shocked, it appeared to be a weather balloon – or so we thought.

– Michael Alverson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think pretty much all the labor economists in the country this morning are shocked.

– Rucha Vankudre

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1 year ago

In the days and weeks after my own cataract surgery, I was stunned by how bright and beautiful and vivid the world was, but I was shocked by the idea that there are hundreds of millions, probably 200 million people around the world, who are blind or nearly blind from cataracts and who don’t have access to the surgery.

– Jeff Levenson

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1 year ago

Sometimes, I was shell shocked, other times I was just deeply, deeply sad, and many times, I did have a sense of despair about the direction my court was going.

– Sonia Sotomayor

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1 year ago

Now I can’t chase them around for more than 30 seconds, and then my heart starts pounding like it’s coming out of my chest. And then if I keep going, I’ll get shocked by my defibrillator.

– Patrick Holland

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We were all shocked yesterday when we saw it in the news, it shows we had those people on the list, on the screen. We are acting. And so we have to investigate for sure, but I'm not frightened by any coup or something.

– Paul Zinken/dpa

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I think he has certainly gone there eventually, but has never been the first one to jump ship, i can't see him leaving the Democratic Party completely. I'd be very shocked.

– Elgine McArdle

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

One more thing they need to do is focus on crime, when you go and say that you’re going to glorify criminals instead of having the backs of law enforcement, don’t be shocked when crime goes up. Don’t be shocked when murders go up. We’ve got to have a Senate that understands that we’ve gotta put law and order back in place.

– Nikki Haley

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I am shocked and devastated by the horrific attacks today in James Smith Cree Nation and Weldon, Saskatchewan, that claimed the lives of 10 people and injured many more.

– Justin Trudeau

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I was initially shocked when I heard of the first firing.

– Nabretta Hardin

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1 year ago

I still remained shocked every time I see it.

– Amit Mehta

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1 year ago

It is not until you arrived, Thomas Webster, that all hell broke loose, i still remained shocked every time I see it.

– Amit Mehta

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He lunged onto Mr. Salman Rushdie and started pummeling him with his hand, very quickly, i was completely stunned and shocked.

– Stephen Davies

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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