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
These have in their medicine-chests the most powerful excitants, which might give a shock even to a man half-dead: they can deafen you, intoxicate you, make you shudder, or bring tears to your eyes.
From Human, All-Too-Human, Part II by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
The Minister for Foreign Affairs replied that in view of our successes he had confidence in our strength, and believed we could give a shock to Austria.
From Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle by Durham, M. E. (Mary Edith)
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 Lee, Vernon
