Sentence examples for were shocks from inspiring English sources

"I don't know how being electrocuted feels," he said, "but there were shocks going all through my body".

He reached the French Open final in 1990, when he lost against Andrés Gómez, and in 1991, when he lost to Jim Courier, both of which were shocks.

There were shocks and surprises – and even talk of a renegade jury – at the closing ceremony for the 69th Cannes film festival.

As I wrote four years ago, in the group stages of Japan/Korea 2002, there were shocks, goals, exciting games – and a scattering shake-up of the world order.

There were shocks, controversies, rampaging fans and a new discovery in Ligue 1 last weekend, but an exciting round of action was overshadowed by a revelation in a new autobiography that has upset Zinedine Zidane.

Noble: "Tonga not being in the last eight and the form of Scotland were shocks.

We were shocked – shocked!

The British were shocked.

The Romans were shocked.

People there were shocked.

The wives were shocked!