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
I have selected that expression advisedly, in order to give a shock to the reader.
From Hortus Vitae Essays on the Gardening of Life by Vernon Lee
Presently I inquired about Aniela's health, with a strange, troubled foreboding I might hear something which, though perfectly natural and in the order of things, would give a shock to my nerves.
From Without Dogma by Henryk Sienkiewicz
This seemed to give a shock to his constitution from which he never afterwards fully recovered.
From The History of Dartmouth College by Baxter Perry Smith
