SHOCKED in a Sentence

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Brought up in a democratic atmosphere, the student was shocked by the bigotry and narrowness expressed by several of his classmates.

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 Meanings and Examples of SHOCKED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
shocked
 a.  struck with fear, dread, or consternation
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  I said it right out to our minister once, and he was shocked at me.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
2  "Susie, you know that's not so," protested Carreen, shocked.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
3  Both the doctor and his wife looked slightly shocked at her ignorance.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
4  They took it for granted that she was imbued with their own patriotic fervor and would have been shocked to know how slight an interest in the war she had.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
5  Since the return of her wedding ring, Melanie had felt that Rhett was a gentleman of rare refinement and delicacy and she was shocked at this remark.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
6  In all her sheltered life she had never seen evil and could scarcely credit its existence, and when gossip whispered things about Rhett and the girl in Charleston she was shocked and unbelieving.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
7  It shocked her to realize that anyone as absolutely perfect as Ashley could have any thought in common with such a reprobate as Rhett Butler.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
8  And she knew that this was utterly wrong, knew she should be shocked and infuriated.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
9  And how shocked everybody had been when she danced at the bazaar.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
10  Don't pull such a shocked face, Jane.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
11  But the thousands of starving animals, left homeless when their masters had been so rudely evacuated, had shocked him almost as much as the cemetery, for Frank loved cats and dogs.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
12  Whenever she spoke her mind everyone seemed to be shocked.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
13  They'll never understand you and they'll be shocked no matter what you do.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
14  I didn't think you could be so shocked, Scarlett.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
15  The neighbors would have been shocked, aggrieved and indignant, had these brief prayers been all the service over the body of their loved friend, and no one knew this better than Ashley.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
Example Sentence: (91 in 7 pages)
16  Hilary was neither shocked nor surprised by the news.
17  This particular murder case was so horrific that it shocked even the most hard-bitten of New York police officers.
18  The violence and bad language in the program shocked many of the viewers.
19  Nowadays people are rarely shocked by the sex they see on television.
20  The Prince had shocked society by living openly with his mistress.
21  Look at the report and be prepared to be shocked by the photo of the main drainage canal.
22  Indeed, his example is so inapt that I'm kind of shocked that he wrote it.
23  Other northern employers were shocked that ex-slaves refused to work in conditions that would not daunt a farmer in the North.
24  Mr. Brumby's paragon is shocked at the other's inaptitude for examination.
25  Brought up in a democratic atmosphere, the student was shocked by the bigotry and narrowness expressed by several of his classmates.
26  His incontinent behavior off stage so shocked many people that they refused to attend the plays and movies in which he appeared.
27  His atheistic remarks shocked the religious worshippers.
28  The gas attack on Tokyo's subway shocked Japan and shed light on the fanatical Aum Shinrikyo group.
29  The sufferings of the Cuban people shocked my sensibility.
30  Yesterday we took care of 11 people who evaded capture, or hid, or escaped, and they were shocked naturally, but were not physically harmed except for some bruises.