shocker

Example Sentences

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Oliver Fetzer, a former CEO of Viridos, said the scientists’ cost estimate, in combination with the low productivity seen in algae’s first year of outdoor testing, “was a shocker for everybody.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

He opts for a flashy shocker of a finale, which violates the play’s comic naturalism and seems faintly desperate.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

"What were they doing?," lamented former England centre Will Greenwood in his Sunday Telegraph column, with the 2003 World Cup-winner adding: "I love Ford but that was a shocker of a call."

From Barron's • Feb. 15, 2026

There were suspicions in the first Test that all might not be well with Snicko and the technology had an all-time shocker on the first day of the third Test in Adelaide.

From BBC • Jan. 7, 2026

The street’s a complete shocker and has always been renowned for it.

From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak