Sentence examples for stood shocked from inspiring English sources

The groom, Mike Benson, who had ridden eight hours in a horse van from South Carolina with Arcadius the day before, helped take off his horse's bridle, and stood — shocked, gutted, alone, silent, as the race replay spun out on the infield television screen.

The tiny teen stood shocked as MTV cut to commercial.

That morning, they stood shocked in front of their TVs and wept as they saw planes crash into buildings and heard of frantic friends and coworkers who lost loved ones.

Last night, Anthony's parents stood, shocked, in the hallway of the two-story brick building where the family moved after coming from Guyana in 1997.

His reaction is recounted at the conclusion of Alfred Lansing's splendid 1959 book, Endurance: For a long moment he stood shocked and silent before he spoke.

I stand shocked by its beauty, and, as I look, I imagine the swans on their island seeing the bright spark in the night and feeling their swan hearts moved.

"See the air and water sprouting from the blowholes!" We stand, shocked, astonished, terrified at the sight of a shoal of sea monsters, the smallest of which could split our raft with a snap of its teeth.' - Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne.

So I stood there shocked out of my comfort and fumbling around for words to make this right.

We all stood there shocked, knowing that one wrong step and we could get in trouble too.

(For example: "Would you rather endure seven shocks to earn $10 or 10 shocks to earn $15?") The other half offered the same type of decision, except that someone else stood to be shocked.

But when I turn into the alley where Marie-Michelle and Claudine's two-room house once stood I am shocked by the totality of its destruction.