Sentence examples for grave shock from inspiring English sources

Turning pages back from digital grave shock!

Matt King, a wealthy Honolulu attorney, has had a grave shock: his wife, Joanie, has been injured in a boat-racing accident and now lies in the hospital in a vegetative state.

That she sought to control the visual world from beyond the grave shocks no one who knew her.

From that time, grave shocks struck its economy, and these, combined with failure in war, led to another brief experiment in signorial rule; in 1342 a protégé of King Robert, Walter of Brienne, titular duke of Athens, was appointed signore for one year.

And it makes the whole idea of sudden, grave climate shocks arising from greenhouse emissions seem terribly plausible, even if it does not predict any particular shocks.

Insurance: When low-income workers experience incidents such as health shocks, natural disasters, and other emergencies, they often do not have formal insurance and therefore experience grave income shocks.

EVER since the money markets capsized last August, top bankers have criticised Britain's central bank for a tardy and inadequate response to the gravest financial shock since the early 1930s.

But industry experts point to another reason for the price shock: a grave miscalculation by insurers.

"It's a shock," Mr. Graves said, tugging the brim of his fedora.

My father was shocked, and grave; my grandmother frailer than I remembered.

Two murdered women had been found in 2001 before the mass grave found in November shocked the city out of its complacency.