Sentence examples for thoroughly shocked from inspiring English sources
It's a tragedy, so it doesn't end particularly well, but audiences were thoroughly shocked and titillated by the plot.
After decades of effort to rejuvenate the waterways that were once merely a convenient cesspool for the deposition of offal and carcasses from the millions of livestock that met their end in Chicago's famed Union Stock Yards, the idea of intentionally developing a section of the river that could not support any life is thoroughly shocking.
I have been unnerved, thrilled, sometimes shocked and often thoroughly creeped out, by horror films.
But journalists need to drastically pick up the pace, so they never again have to face an election night where prepared stories are tossed out like gum wrappers and palms hit foreheads in thoroughly avoidable shock.
As an FSB officer in the 1990s, Litvinenko had been shocked to discover how thoroughly organised crime had penetrated Russia's security organs.
Some of these might once have shocked, but by now most have been thoroughly excavated by black stand-up comics, from Richard Pryor to Chris Rock.
She "shocked early-1960s America with the news that unmarried women not only had sex but thoroughly enjoyed it," her New York Times obituary read, and "spent the next three decades telling those women precisely how to enjoy it even more".
We were shocked – shocked!
