Example Sentences

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Except there were several new developments of varying degrees of shockingness.

From The Guardian • Oct. 13, 2012

For all their shockingness, all on one note.'

From Women in Love by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

While the firing was in progress I saw a sight that in all of my subsequent experiences was not equalled in shockingness.

From Personal Recollections of the War of 1861 As Private, Sergeant and Lieutenant in the Sixty-First Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry by Fuller, Charles Augustus