Sentence examples for shocking habit from inspiring English sources
During her subsequent teaching stints in a series of French towns, she frequently found herself at odds with school administrators because of her involvement in labor protests, her shocking habit of publicly socializing with workers and the unemployed and her brusque manners when dealing with authority figures.
It is a shocking habit - destructive to the logical faculty".
It is a shocking habit - destructive to the logical faculty". Yet the type of reasoning which Holmes uses in most of Conan Doyle's stories includes a good deal of guesswork.
In the season 4 episode of "Sex and the City," "The Good Fight," Carrie Bradshaw reveals that when she's home alone, she makes a stack of saltine crackers with grape jelly and eats them standing up in the kitchen while reading fashion magazines -- not the most shocking habit, but certainly a bit unexpected.
In one new show, "Honey, We're Killing the Kids," a nutritionist works with families to improve their children's eating and exercise habits, first shocking them with computer-generated portraits, above, of what the children will look like as adults if they do not change their bad habits.
One of them, a fellow known as Uncle Tito (Carlos Mencia, crawling up from the bottom of the Comedy Central barrel), has a habit of saying shocking things to Eddie, waiting a beat, and then exclaiming, "I was only joking".
Shocking moment to shocking moment.
The shocking truth about our sugar habits comes out of the mouth of babes.
The Bloomsburies relished being shocking, but were quite shockable themselves, and thought her habit of dancing naked in the dawn fields beyond the pale.
It was not till much later that it became clear that the shocking conditions were caused not so much by Irish habits as by the unprecedented increase in Britain's population, which almost doubled in 40 years from 1800.
This means shocking futures in order to break down the old habits of thinking to explore new and open futures territory.
