Sentence examples for but it shocks from inspiring English sources

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Here there's total breaking news urgency, but it shocks me how the journalists take it in stride.

Most of this material is familiar, thanks to "Biohazard" (1999), by the Russian defector -- now known as Ken Alibek -- and the authors' earlier reportage for The Times, but it shocks nonetheless.

Their first kiss is a joke meant to shock the other moms, but it shocks Brad and Sarah as well, and their discomfort signals that we are not in the swinging suburbia of novels like "Couples" or "The Ice Storm," but rather in a milieu in which marital infidelity carries the dangerous, thrilling charge of genuine transgression.

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But it shocked South Koreans who feared that their giant neighbor was quickly catching up in another important industry.

'We took it for granted but it shocked me in 1982 when the Falklands war was happening and you weren't hearing songs about it.

It doesn't sound like much, I know, but it shocked a nation not used to winning at sports and which had consequently invested a lot in them.

But it shocked me in 2007 that Hillary Clinton got a pass on her scandals as "old news" while the media was obsessed with Obama's non-scandals of guilt by association with Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright.

'Get that girl away from him!' I know we're not always on our best behavior as parents, but it shocked me that an adult would react that way to a kid.

But it shocked him how controlled they were".

"But it always shocks me".

It is a familiar image from the civil rights struggle, but it still shocks.

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