Sentence examples for suffered sticker from inspiring English sources

Collectors suffered sticker shock, it seems, and so the paintings remained unsold for years.

She went to Pottery Barn to price two sofas and suffered sticker shock: together, they were $4,000.

JOHN FREY JR. suffered sticker shock when he shopped for a new car last November, a month before the lease on his Toyota Avalon was to expire.

Collectors suffered sticker shock, it seems, and the paintings remained unsold for years before the museum bought them from the artist in 1937 for about one-tenth of the initial asking price.

Bill Guerin of the Dallas Stars, a union vice president and member of its executive board, said that some player representatives suffered sticker shock after learning the details in a conference call after the meeting, but he said he thought that the union would approve the deal if it came to a vote.

The 1300 planetary scientists gathered here suffered sticker shock when Squyres presented the costs of their hoped for missions.

"We do get customers that suffer sticker shock, but rarely," says Michelle Cook, business manager at Sisley's counter at Bergdorf Goodman.

Jack S. Lusk, a managing director at the recruiting firm Gilbert Tweed Associates in Manhattan, said people starting with a budget in mind invariably suffer sticker shock.

While fine beer may be cheaper than fine wine, diners are still used to beer as an inexpensive, by-the-glass proposition; even big spenders can suffer sticker shock.

Heard the one about the fashionista and his arm candy who live in parallel universes, prefer chat rooms and text messaging to snailmail, suffer sticker shock at the cost of pashminas and like chick lit or airport novels?

In interviews along a strip of car dealerships on West Central Avenue in Toledo, Ohio, this week, dealers and customers said that it was hard not to suffer sticker shock at the gas pump.