Sentence examples for to a shocking extent from inspiring English sources

(It works, to a shocking extent, digging up long-forgotten addresses for several people in the room).

He's had weak opposing candidates for the Republican nomination and the Republican Party big-wigs were to a shocking extent missing in action.

The banking regulator has at last forced the country's banks to acknowledge the shocking extent of their dud loans and is now more independent of its charges than it used to be.

The Cornell International Survey on Street Harassment by academics at Cornell University and anti-harassment campaign group Hollaback!, surveyed more than 16,000 women to reveal the shocking extent of street harassment around the world.

It is a way to protest against what he sees as the shocking extent to which our society wastes food.

That logic took him to a shocking place.

They drive off to a shocking, stunning ending.

It's about what exactly the U.S. government has been up to since the anthrax attacks in the wake of 9/11, and the shocking extent to which we have wasted precious time and billions of dollars on poorly defined policy objectives and bureaucratic logjams.

I won't dwell on the shocking extent to which reading is neglected in modern languages teaching these days in favour of largely trivial communication which doesn't stick for long, but I will mention my recent experience of examining a doctorate on decoding skills in French in key stage 3.

NEW YORK, 11 June 2013 – On World Day Against Child Labour, UNICEF shines a spotlight on the shocking extent of the abuse of children who work in hazardous or exploitative conditions.

Billy Aronson brings welcome economy to his play "In the Middle of the Night," in which a mother's surprise visit to her son at college reveals the shocking extent of his emotional instability.