Definition: 1. Glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism. 2. Giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation.
Use 'shocking' in a sentence:
1. That was the shocking news.
2. He said it was too shocking.
3. The house was left in a shocking state.
4. This is the most difficult and shocking murder inquiry I have had to open in the last 25 years.
5. This is a shocking incident.
6. This was a shocking decision.
7. It's really a very shocking story.
8. It is shocking that they involved children in the crime.
9. Kris and I love food, and our fridge is usually filled with tons of good stuff, so seeing the vast emptiness was almost shocking.
10. This is quite shocking!
11. The worst may be behind them now, but the shocking losses of the past few years have reshaped nearly every facet of their lives—how they live, work, and spend—even the way they think about the future.
12. It is shocking that nothing was said.
13. "The new is always shocking, but there is nothing new about that." The newspapers here have had a lot of fun with the Turner Prize.
14. Any death in a family is shocking.
15. It turns out that the guy operates the printing machine with amazing speed, and soon he is turning out newspapers with shocking headlines.
16. Most survivors of a shocking event will develop some stress-related symptoms, such as feeling frightened, jumpy, and easily startled.
17. Eyelash vipers are indigenous to Central and South America and come in a variety of colors, including shocking yellow.
18. The media coverage was shocking.
19. He had a shocking disclosure to make.
20. Photographer Weegee shot to fame with his shocking pics of New York crime in the 30s.
21. Tom has since reported the shocking findings to the government in an attempt to emphasise that babies are at higher risk of developing asthma.
22. We've become completely desensitise to the fact that breeding these deformed, disabled, disease-prone animals is either shocking or abnormal.
23. As shocking as this utter failure may be to the nearly 1 billion faithful Facebook users around the world, it's no surprise to anyone who read the initial public offering (IPO) prospectus.
24. It is shocking that humans can behave with such bestiality towards others.
25. "Nature gave us lips to conceal our teeth," ran one popular Victorian maxim, alluding to the fact that before the birth of proper dentistry, mouths were often in a shocking state of hygiene.
26. In the exhibition, abstract paintings are juxtaposed with shocking photographs.
27. She enjoys shocking people by saying outrageous things.
28. It's shocking how students can't spell these days.
29. Even as a satire, it seems disgusting and shocking in America with its child-centered culture.
30. The 8-0 objection to President Obama turns on what Justice Samuel Alito describes in his objection as "a shocking assertion of federal executive power".
