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How to use the word Shockingly in a Sentence?

Sample usage from literary quotes and the newswire.

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It was just shockingly wrong, like not even a little bit right.

Sharon McMahon

Found on CNN
3 years ago

This apparent coordination between hedge funds, trading platforms, and web servers to shut down threats to their market dominance is shockingly unprecedented and wrong.

Ken Paxton

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

It mostly starts with social media influencers taking up a cause. If Im angry at, say, American Airlines, I, a savvy user of social media with shockingly few followers/friends on Twitter/Instagram/TikTok/Facebook will find someone more established who can spread the word, and then I will sit back and hope it takes off.

Susan Campbell

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

While that has come down a lot in the past 50 years, it's still a shockingly high number.

Christopher Wimer

Found on CNN
4 years ago

This cheese is shockingly good!

Gur Kimchi

added by anonymous
4 years ago

At the Chateau Marmont, he pitched a couple of things that made it in. Like wearing glasses that had no lens, and the part in the game night scene where he lists all of these Chinese dignitaries, that was all his idea. And when he says,' I don't have a problem, Sasha. What's your problem ?' and starts air-fighting. It's hard to describe just how shockingly funny he is.

Ali Wong

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The pace at which this epidemic is developing is shockingly fast, that means the response has to be so fast -- and it's not.

Sara Cody

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Hard to believe @haotong_li has been penalized for this. Frankly, I think it's a shockingly bad decision and for the life of me I cannot see how (caddie) Mike has lined Haotong up here.

British Masters

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The disturbingly techno-illiterate and cyber-hygienically lackadaisical and shockingly arrogant responses by the National Association of Secretaries of States when we at ICIT repeatedly showed them what their vulnerabilities were and exactly how elections could be compromised is a betrayal of trust to offer safe and legitimate elections. The technical vulnerabilities littering our election systems is only part of the problem.

James Scott

added by williamson
7 years ago

Shockingly, in that six-year period, the nine members of the Board of management will have been paid around 400 million euros. That is corporate excess on an epic scale. Management has been rewarded for failure.

Chris Hohn

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

In countries like Ethiopia( prevalence) is mind-numbingly, shockingly high – in some communities over 50 percent of the population have trachoma.

Tom Millar

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I always feel self-conscious, i'm probably the least confident person on the slopes that you'll find, shockingly enough. I feel like when I get on red carpets and stuff, it's kind of like I'm playing a role.

Lindsey Vonn

Found on CNN
8 years ago

With Michael Sam people felt they wanted to be on the right side of history, but when it comes to the race issue, people misunderstood this movement. It was about a group being ignored and a system president who blamed it on the oppressed, which was shockingly clueless.

Sam Gibson

Found on CNN
9 years ago

While this shameful act may be an isolated incident, what’s not isolated are the almost daily reports that feed the perception that VA leadership are detached from the urgent challenges facing returning veterans, but it’s even more troubling that Ms. Paul’s shockingly poor judgment did not merit immediate firing. She should have been fired the minute such poor judgment was discovered and failing to do so only reinforces VA's track record of failing to hold its employees accountable.

Pete Hegseth

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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