Sentence examples for first shocked from inspiring English sources

Yet while the defenders around him were at first shocked by the mistake, they quickly ran to comfort Bettinelli.

The Women's Health Initiative first shocked the world in 2002, when it stopped its largest hormone study because it showed that a common combination of estrogen and progestin was harmful, increasing a woman's risk for heart problems and breast cancer.

The Nazarbayev I knew in the early 1990s as the first U.S. ambassador to Kazakhstan was, at first, shocked by the corruption-fueled Russian manhandling of his new republic.

When a letter arrived from Joseph in which he mentioned his reading of Darwin, she, at first shocked, concluded that he must be doing so in order to best refute Darwin.

Though he was at first shocked by the suggested elimination of "The Ballad of Sweeney Todd," Mr. Sondheim said that when he put on his "movie-buff hat," he "completely agreed," because it would keep holding up the action.

On this April Fool's Day, 95 years after the Joy Buzzer first shocked an unsuspecting victim, we honor the gags that have shaped this day -- and we remain wary of those that lurk just around the corner.

After the first shock, she felt nothing.

But that's only the first shock.

"So the first shock leads to a second shock, and you also get the contagion".

But now you may get your first shock.

The first shock came with the Middle East war that October.