Sentence examples for but a shock from inspiring English sources

But a shock it was, a wake-up call.

That is far less than in many troubled South Side areas but a shock for relatively affluent Chatham.

For a few minutes, she moves through this dim setting; we can't see her face, but a shock of her orange hair shows up.

Although Kim manages to parry questions of policy, his character is held up to ridicule, which is no news around the world but a shock to his subjects.

But a shock awaits her: "Sally" is really Eva Delectorskaya, a Russian-born spy for British Intelligence, and a fugitive for 30 years.

But a shock ruling last week has put the centuries-old tradition under threat, after the European Food Safety Authority (Efsa) stepped in to classify placenta as a "novel food".

On a day when Andre Agassi and Serena Williams breezed, Federer's defeat was unexpected but hardly a shock.

Winners in 1987 and 1999, but suffered a shock defeat to Sri Lanka in the 1996 final.

"It came not only as a surprise, but as a shock," said Jürgen Pfister, the chief economist at Commerzbank.

"It was a great blow, but not a shock because he had been ill for a long time," she says.

Less so its massive bulk –something obvious before you put it on, but still a shock in practice.