Sentence examples for a few shocking from inspiring English sources

For a few shocking, thumping seconds, however, I was back there, back in Gloucester, at the end of February 1994.

There have been a few shocking cases in which a fiancé was killed in the destruction of the World Trade Center.

A few shocking tales have turned out to be true even the outlandish one about a Politburo member's wife murdering a British businessman (if the official court verdict is to be trusted).

A few shocking incidents abound – one in particular changes the women's lives for ever – but Rozema's film, based on Jean Hegland's novel, is more interested in detailing the dynamic between the two sisters.

These are not just a few shocking exceptional cases either.

Politics is full of buzzwords, but a few shocking ones are ringing in my ears these days.

On the plus side, the action is meaty, with a few genuinely shocking moments.

In a season with few extraordinary highlights (Kobe Bryant's 81 points) and few shocking lowlights (Larry Brown's Knicks), consistency (the Detroit Pistons) dominated on and off the court.

He says that there are fewer shocking tricks – like the bailiff gaining entry by climbing in an open window or a skylight – and more, like charging too much and seizing items they should not take, which are "more subtle".

However, in 1898, a few years after the shocking defeat of the Chinese forces in the Sino-Japanese War (1894 95), the young Guangxu emperor, under the influence of a group of reformers, put through a number of radical proposals designed to renovate and modernize the Chinese government and to eliminate corruption.

Although it is mostly drawn from just the first of the novels, with a few happy endings and shocking revelations imported from the second, the show cannot comfortably accommodate all the book's significant characters and their curlicued collective destinies in the standard musical theater running time of under three hours.