Sentence examples for as a bombshell from inspiring English sources

"It has come as a bombshell, I really don't know what to make of it.

Highlights are, as ever, Verdi's tunes and the debutante Marina Domashenko as a bombshell Maddalena.

Then Xherdan Shaqiri dropped what can only be described as a bombshell.

"Donald Thump" is what the Mirror calls him, also referring to it as a "bombshell".

His disclosure of the internal memo he had written six months before the disaster was regarded as a bombshell.

This was an extremely expensive project, and the society wanted the gospel valued accordingly — that is, as a bombshell.

The press treated the original Odyssey announcement as a bombshell--the normally sober FT intoned, "many executives fear[ed] the showdown over e-book rights would lead to the death of the 500-year-old publishing business as it is known".

An undeciphered clay-tablet is described by him as variously a potato waiting to be harvested, a sponge to be squeezed as tightly as possible and a bombshell that might go off at any minute.

But it does perhaps indicate why Structure… came as such a bombshell to the philosophers and historians who had pieced together the Whig interpretation of scientific progress.

On 21 June, Blackader was ordered to leave the brigade and go to France; he described the news of the unexpected posting as "like a bombshell".

The immediate repercussions of the Palestinian leader's speech, which his aides had earlier billed as containing a "bombshell," are uncertain.