Sentence examples for shocked upon from inspiring English sources

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(He would later hear that officials were "shocked" upon reviewing video of the demonstration).

The Turkish daily, Hurriyet, reported that officials said Greek commander Athanasios Athanasopulos was "shocked" upon seeing the footage, and vowed to take action.

Another old friend of Allawi's, an Iraqi who now lives in Jordan, told me that, during a recent private reunion, Allawi had said that he was shocked, upon returning to Iraq after thirty years in exile, by the degree to which Saddam's rule had debased Iraqi society.

Jeff Walker, the museum's executive director, described himself as "one of the typical 'gasser' guys" who preferred large internal-combustion engines like the Cadillac's 390-cubic-inch V-8 unit, but he professed to being "shocked" upon driving an electric car for the first time.

But Dr. King's admirers were understandably shocked upon hearing a piece of his immortal "I Have a Dream" speech -- "Free at last! Free at last!" -- sandwiched between the voices of Homer Simpson and Kermit the Frog in a TV commercial for a cellular phone company.

Although he was initially shocked upon hearing of The Walking Dead, Lincoln thought the episode's script was well-written.

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They're shocked when, upon returning to Los Angeles and announcing their engagement, their parents' prejudices surface.

Despite knowing that true illiteracy exists, I was still shocked to come upon it in real life.

"I'm just shocked," Root said upon his return.

Medical professionals at St . Vincents Hospitalin Sydney's St . Vincents Hospital were shocked on Monday upon discovering a concealed firearm inside a 66-year-old man's prostHospital

My classmates and I are still in shock upon learning of our professor's passing.

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