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How to use the word shocked in a Sentence? Page #7

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The cutters have been knocking on doors, including mine, asking if there are young girls they can cut. I was so shocked.

Sadia Allin

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We observed a shiny little blue bee grabbing the flower and rubbing its head on the top portion of the flower two or three times before moving on to another flower, in reading about this unique behavior we were pretty shocked to see it.

Chase Kimmel

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Even my doctors are completely shocked at how well I recovered, it could have been an attribution of a multitude of things. Maybe it was the combination of antibiotics I was on or the fact that we started intervention early at the hospital instead of waiting at home. It could have even been due to the shots I got during my military service. The shots everyone gets when going overseas for malaria or stuff like that.

Megan Kingston

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Shocked by the deaths of migrant workers hit by train. We should be ashamed of how we treat our nation-builders.

Rahul Gandhi

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Around Christmas time I ruptured two of my ligaments in my ankle and I was meant to be out for about eight weeks, but I was only out for six weeks and when I was coming back from injury I was getting quicker results than when I was fully fit, my max speed went up, which shocked both myself and my physio.

Ciaren Jones

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

I was really shocked at first because I didn't understand why he was giving it to me, but he said that he was extremely grateful that we were open and putting ourselves at risk to serve the community.

Josh Pikoff

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We are shocked and disappointed, we will not give up our hard work for equal pay.

Molly Levinson

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

It is by far one of the most bodies at one time that I've experienced in terms of a nursing home. Based upon the pandemic and the numbers we saw coming out of the facility, I don't know if I'm necessarily shocked about that. It's an unfortunate situation altogether.

Eric Danielson

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It's hard, but we knew what we were doing, and nothing that happened really shocked me.

South Carolina.Read MoreBernie Sanders

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Then eventually it shot up like a rocket. People started dropping dead. Three peopled turned into 10, that's when I believe the fear of what's really going on shocked.

Antoine Jasmine

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We were shocked, i still really haven't wrapped my mind around it all the way.

Rachel Breunlin

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I wouldn't be shocked to see a 5% or more drop in carbon dioxide emissions this year, something not seen since the end of World War Two, neither the fall of the Soviet Union nor the various oil or savings and loan crises of the past 50 years are likely to have affected emissions the way this crisis is.

Rob Jackson

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Investors are trying put a bottom in here, it seems like that yesterday was such a collection of so much bad news, it shocked the market down. Today with fresh eyes people are picking out the names they think have dropped the most.

Rick Meckler

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It seems like that yesterday was such a collection of so much bad news, it shocked the market down. Today with fresh eyes people are picking out the names they think have dropped the most.

Rick Meckler

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

When I was hearing the amount of people that died with the flu, I was shocked to hear it, over the last, long period of time when people have the flu, you have an average of 36,000 people dying. I've never heard those numbers, I would've been shocked. I would have said,' Does anybody die of the flu ?' I didn't know people died from the flu.

Fred Trump

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The anonymous source sent me my son's details, who is a soldier in the army. And I was amazed. And when I see the magnitude of the details -- more than six million people -- I was shocked it was so easy.

Ran Bar-Zik

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We were horrified by the extent of these acts of sexual violence on our campus. This investigation revealed the University's mishandling of reports in what should have been a supportive, responsive and caring environment for students, the depth to which these acts occurred shocked and outraged us. Our students and their families deserve more, and we have committed our full attention to improving our processes, establishing accountability and ensuring appropriate actions are taken to support former, current and future students.

Richard Willis

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The depth to which these acts occurred shocked and outraged us. Our students and their families deserve more, and we have committed our full attention to improving our processes, establishing accountability and ensuring appropriate actions are taken to support former, current and future students.

Richard Willis

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We were shocked, we thought there was a mistake in the email they sent us.

Bridget Hayman with Access Living

Found on CNN
4 years ago

In this life I have lived, my biggest blessings have been when they arrived unexpected, when they happened out of nowhere, when I got the call that I was offered the opportunity to be President of Cannes Jury for 2020, I was shocked, happy, surprised and proud all at the same time.

Spike Lee

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We were shocked, it doesn't matter the circumstances -- the loss of a sister is what it's all about.

Gary Hunziker

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We are puzzled and shocked.

Junichiro Hironaka

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We are stuck here now, everyone is pretty shocked at the moment, most of my mates are in the same position.

Fisherman Steve Casement

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Those of us who know Garcia Luna are shocked by his recent arrest.

Jose Rodriguez

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

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