Shocking in sentence

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It's very shocking and counterintuitive: Why would someone confess and even give gruesome details about a horrifying crime like rape or murder if they hadn't actually done it?

What's also shocking to most is that, in interrogations in the US, police are allowed to interrogate juveniles just like adults.

Imagine seeing your life, 30 years of it, go by, and it was, to say the least, for me, quite a shocking experience.

And for me, it's very shocking to see sometimes very poor people, for example, not supporting the idea of the rich being taxed more.

Now I know that teaching people transitional change instead of shocking them into change is always a better way of implementing change.

The shocking police crackdown on protestors in Ferguson, Missouri, in the wake of the police shooting of Michael Brown, underscored the extent to which advanced military weapons and equipment, designed for the battlefield, are making their way to small-town police departments across the United States.

But it would be much less shocking if I told you it wasn't the friend who said that.

We did this by squandering antibiotics with a heedlessness that now seems shocking.

Having brain cancer was really, as you can imagine, shocking news for me.

What you find is shocking.

I've seen all sorts of animals fall in, and what's shocking to me, is the process is pretty much the same.

Now, what was truly shocking was that all but one of those lawyers provided our investigator with suggestions on how to move those suspect funds.

What's shocking, though, is that in the last 40 years, this number hasn't changed a bit, while much more progress has been made with other types of tumors.

And the shocking thing is: Why?

It's shocking, isn't it?

Now Danny is currently traveling the world, teaching anatomy to the public via his body paintings, which is why it was so shocking to find out that he was rejected from medical illustration programs.

If they do, if they find out, they find each other less attractive, and they more and more don't want their children to marry someone who supports the other party, a particularly shocking statistic.

It went up to 49. (Laughter) And in fact, when I reported this figure in the FT, one of our readers joked and said, "This figure is only shocking to 51 percent of the population."

And I came to realize that my coffee, like so much else in the world, requires the combined work of a shocking number of people from all walks of life.

And so I can be totally clear, thinking I'm ready to go, but I'm accidentally touching a tentacle and inadvertently shocking myself.

It came as a major surprise when in March 1905 he submitted a paper with a shocking hypothesis.

It was so shocking and heartbreaking ... and generous, and really comforting because it was so starkly honest, and that honesty turned out to be exactly what we needed.

And I warn you that some of the things that I'm going to show you probably are a little bit shocking.

Through his brutal and shocking honesty, Machiavelli sought to shatter popular delusions about what power really entails.

While her work can be shocking in its rage and trauma, Plath casts her readers as witnesses– not only to the truth of her psychological life, but to her astounding ability to express what often remains inexpressible.

So I'll start with a shocking statistic: 50 to 80 percent of people in criminal justice have a traumatic brain injury.

And sometimes there were shocking realizations, and other times there were tears, but mostly it was laughs.

These are, like, surprising things to me, and shocking.

This afforded viewers multiple and often impossible perspectives on the same object; a technique considered shocking even in Picasso’s domestic scenes.

The shocking part of this story is that our maternal mortality rate is actually higher than all other high-income countries, and our rates are far worse for women of color.

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