Sentence examples for horrid shock from inspiring English sources
Estimates of how much it will cost to clean up the country's rotten banking system range from $60 billion to $100 billion.For a country whose economy has grown at an average of 8.6% a year over three decades, turning cap-in-hand to the IMF is a horrid shock.
The other great high-watermark of Chapman's elemental writing is the wrecking of Odysseus on the shore of Phaeacia, which is suffused with the hero's weariness ('the sea had soakt his heart through'), as well as the vigour of the elements: 'He heard a sound beate from the sea-bred rocks/Against which gave a huge sea horrid shocks,/That belcht upon the firme land weedes and fome'.
Mashed-up blackberries with flavoured butter looks nice and horrid, but for real "shock effect" why not add some real blood?
Horrid boys become horrid men.
His "shock jock" views are not always edifying: he has described the Koran as a "book of hate", for example, and said horrid things about autistic children.
Horrid, horrid, and let me say again, horrid.
