Sentence examples for tiny shock from inspiring English sources

The discs in the back, designed to cushion the spine's notches like tiny shock absorbers, also start to shrivel.

This tiny shock was an early warning that American painting was destined to operate according to its own rules, with spontaneous, intimidating power.

Their rowdy cries, the joyous yelling of two briefly liberated children, are a tiny shock in a story lifted by ethereal music and often brought down to earth by monotone filmmaking.

And should those children inevitably use the zapper on themselves or on others, as children are wont to do, the tiny shock they get does little more than give them a moment of frisson.

"But I sort of like the way it feels when it vibrates and gives me tiny shocks on the inside of my wrist," he said.

The cartoonish image of my head being fried, tiny shocks and whiffs of smoke coming off it as the electric current went through, haunted me even though I knew that ECT no longer was administered with convulsive force, jolting patients in their straps.

The patient was there to have her hands and feet examined by EMG — electromyography — a test that looks for damaged nerves by sending tiny shocks through the muscle to the delicate strands that connect it to the spinal cord and brain.

They are inserted just beneath the skin in a swift in-and-out manoeuvre that provokes a strange, dull, spreading ache or something akin to tiny electric shocks.

Here's the line: "It's a brain implant in the lateral border that sends out tiny electric shocks to continuously stimulate the Inferior Temporal Gyrus.

But New York City officials warn that hydrofracturing outside the watershed boundaries could set off tiny subsurface shocks, cracking the aging tunnels that bring water to the city and allowing water to leak out of the tunnels and gas to seep in.

Although Chávistas in central Caracas launched fireworks and honked their car horns in celebration, the tiny margin shocked many aides, who had been expecting the double-digit victory predicted by most polls up until a week ago.