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Discover LudwigThe expression 'feel a shock' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe the feeling of being surprised or alarmed. For example, "I felt a shock when I saw the final score of the game."
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Eventually Henry will be able to hear the Beatles' "Nowhere Man" and feel a shock of recognition.
Any child reared on "King Ottokar's Sceptre", a Balkan thriller; or "The Calculus Affair", about a scientist's kidnap, will later feel a shock of familiarity when watching Hitchcock films or reading Graham Greene.
Readers will feel a shock of disappointment when Larson reveals that in 1917 Schwieger's new, improved submarine, U88, was ambushed by HMS Stonecroft and herded into a British minefield where it exploded with the loss of all hands.
Listening to pompous Bernard, who puts down a local tennis pro as a nothing and patronizes "A Tale of Two Cities" to his son who then says at dinner that he can't be bothered to read "minor Dickens"—educated moviegoers may feel a shock of recognition.
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Reading Renault's books, I felt a shock of recognition.
After a second, I felt a shock: it really hurt.
Audience members and musicians said they felt a shock.
"Always she felt a shock at the greatness of the spaces outside the tent.
On reading Yudkin's introduction, he felt a shock of recognition.
"I felt a shock of recognition because of all the classical references familiar from Greece," Ms. Hogan said.
I asked her what she was doing at the time and whether she had felt a shock.
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