Sentence examples for delivered a shocking from inspiring English sources

He boasted that sales would turn positive over Christmas 2013 – but delivered a shocking 6% downturn.

Then, at the end of September, Shell delivered a shocking announcement: it had failed to find sufficient oil in its Chukchi Sea exploration well and was withdrawing from drilling in Alaskan waters "for the foreseeable future".

Josh delivered a shocking warning: Tarantulas are fragile.

"RuPaul's Drag Race" delivered a shocking blow this week when fan-favorite Valentina was sent packing ― largely because she didn't know the words during her lip-sync.

Warren's victory is both historic -- she will be the first woman to represent the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. Senate -- and gratifying -- she delivered a shocking 8-point slapdown to her "handsome" opponent and his Wall Street backers.

The novel was published in 1939 and delivered a shock to the English reading world.

A day later, in a different environment, they delivered a shock to the mice while activating the neurons involved in the memory of the first environment.

With a presidential vote due in mid-2006, the results were closely watched.They delivered a shock to the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which ruled Mexico for seven decades before losing to Vicente Fox in 2000.

Stray voltage caused by a malfunction in an electrical service box delivered a shock to two dogs in the East Village last night, just two blocks from where a woman received a fatal jolt in January.

He has called for leadership in the civil service and said in a talk at the IfG in February that Maude had delivered a shock to the civil service, but now the civil service must take progress forward itself.

Marks & Spencer delivered a shock at the start of 2008, when it reported its worst quarterly performance in two years.