Sentence examples for a shocking event and from inspiring English sources

How useful is social media in the wake of a shocking event, and for whom?

It is a shocking event and one that challenges the dominant historical narrative of England's proud seafaring past.

A shocking event shakes things up and starts a new era, for better or for worse.

This is a shocking event to happen to anybody, and it's a shocking thing to happen to this character, who is a nice person — and bad things happen to nice people.

But the October 24th gathering turned out to be a shocking event in the history of Indian corporate governance and the Tata group.

Alexandra Lort Phillips, a British activist who testified in earlier court hearings in Istanbul, said: "The attack on the ships of the flotilla was a shocking event … The actions of Israel were illegal, plain and simple".

"This is a shocking event".

"This was quite a shocking event for the company," he said.

The stay in Paris was cut short by a shocking event.

"A murder in Oslo or in a remote, small Swedish city or village is a shocking event," Nesbø told me.

Describing the attack on Saturday, Abdulkadir Omar, who owns a stationery shop nearby, called it "a shocking event".