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
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
But notwithstanding this warning, not long afterwards, in endeavoring to give a shock to a paralytic patient, he received the whole charge himself, and was knocked flat and senseless on the floor.
From Benjamin Franklin A Picture of the Struggles of Our Infant Nation One Hundred Years Ago American Pioneers and Patriots Series by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)
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
