give a shock
Example Sentences
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It checks the heart rhythm and will only tell you to give a shock if it is needed.
From BBC • Jun. 30, 2022
“They wanted to give a shock message today to show to everybody that they are serious about price stability.”
From BusinessWeek • Mar. 3, 2011
This seemed to give a shock to his constitution from which he never afterwards fully recovered.
From The History of Dartmouth College by Smith, Baxter Perry
Such an unsuspected lurking of primitive belief in our midst may well give a shock of surprise.
From Rustic Sounds and Other Studies in Literature and Natural History by Darwin, Francis, Sir
Perhaps he thought the time had come to give a shock to our too confident views concerning evolution.
From A Critique of the Theory of Evolution by Morgan, Thomas Hunt
