Sentence examples for shocking prices from inspiring English sources

In Scandinavia, shocking prices are not just a downtown phenomenon, but extend across urban areas and even into the countryside, which spreads over a vast and often sparsely populated terrain.

And when my bride appeared in the doorway, everything else — the stress, the tantrums, the petty details, the shocking price tag — melted away.

Anabel Hernández's forensically detailed account, translated by Iain Bruce and Lorna Scott Fox, of the rise of this "king of betrayal and bribery" over the last two decades reveals the shocking price Mexico has paid for not eliminating him and the other drugs cartels.

The western failure to recognise the shocking price paid by many east Europeans for a highly qualified freedom – the Economist this week dismissed them as "the old, the timid, the dim" – is only exceeded by the refusal to acknowledge that the communist system had benefits as well as obvious costs.

Society is paying a "shocking" price for poor mental health care for pregnant women and new mothers in the UK, a report says.

The Price of History Another Minnesota home with a shocking price tag, the Southways Estate, was built by the Pillsbury family in 1918 and occupied in the 1990s by Minnesota Vikings co-owner James Jundt and his family.

To avoid such problems (and what with the shocking price of fuel oil these days), I intend to heat our house with the ready and dependable supply of wood left from the oaks that fell on the roof in 1978.

The Orchards Inn of Sedona proves that stunning views don't have to come with shocking price tags.