How to Use shock therapy in a Sentence

shock therapy

noun

• But the response was to have to give her electric shock therapy.
  — Wilson Chapman, Variety, 15 Apr. 2022
• The Perfection Years of shaving her head for shock therapy can do quite a number on a gal’s hair.
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 24 June 2019
• Unlike shock therapy, which jolts the whole brain, TMS penetrates only an inch or so.
  — Gregory Mone, Discover Magazine, 31 Aug. 2012
• It’s like the girl who was electrocuted, who got electric shock therapy.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 18 Dec. 2022
• Nostrums such as shock therapy and stem cells rose and fell, dividing the community in their wake.
  — Jason Mast Reprints, STAT, 30 June 2023
• Concern grew over reports of poor treatment, abuse, lobotomies and electric shock therapy.
  — Michael Smolens Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Jan. 2022
• North America’s largest bird is on the verge of extinction, and scientists are using shock therapy to give them a fighting chance.
  — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 31 Aug. 2015
• Along with his sullen young assistant, Fiennes visits the asylums of the West Coast performing lobotomies and electric shock therapy.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2019
• He was hospitalized for six months and subjected to shock therapy.
  — Larry Blumenfeld, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2022
• Rotenberg is the only facility in the nation to use shock therapy, which disability activists condemn as a form of abuse.
  — John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2023
• Psychiatric treatments of the past, such as lobotomies or shock therapy, failed to adequately protect patients.
  — Olivia Goldhill, Quartz, 16 Oct. 2020
• Try electric shock therapy, drugs that render men impotent, or maybe even a lobotomy.
  — Jane M. Von Bergen, Philly.com, 1 Oct. 2017
• Kwarteng’s mini-budget appears to be creating a kind of supply-side economics shock therapy for Britain.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2022
• Hard to believe now, but Russia’s leadership wanted to use shock therapy after the collapse of the Soviet Union to create a market economy and align closely with the West.
  — Jon Talton, The Seattle Times, 4 Dec. 2018
• This gradualist recipe, intended to avoid the upheaval of past economic shock therapies, relied heavily on fresh credit to plug the deficit.
  — Ryan Dube, WSJ, 29 May 2018
• So the shock therapy of that earlier era might be unnecessarily painful.
  — Joel Mathis, The Week, 12 July 2022
• The Yeltsin years would bring new freedoms but also economic shock therapy, chaos, corruption and hardship for many ordinary Russians.
  — The New York Times, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2022
• Solzhenitsyn abhorred the shock therapy and unchecked capitalism of the 1990s and preferred Putin’s tough nationalism.
  — Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2021
• He’s made a scary movie that balances psychological shock therapy with old-fashioned fright, shadowy dread with blunt splatterfest FX, an artsy-fartsy sense of stylistics slapped on to a twisty B-movie scenario.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2022
• And the intimacy here between this audience and this comedian differs from the national shock therapy from a few weeks before.
  — New York Times, 19 Apr. 2022
• Researchers at Brigham Young University, which is owned by the church, allegedly used electric shock therapy to attempt to cure homosexuality in the 1970s.
  — Tara Law, Time, 1 Dec. 2019
• But not long after, the rumors began: Eagleton had been hospitalized for depression the decade before and undergone shock therapy.
  — Peggy Drexler, CNN, 17 Feb. 2023
• In this strategically vital nation of 100 million, a charismatic young leader is delivering shock therapy to one of the world’s most entrenched one-party systems.
  — Matina Stevis-Gridneff, WSJ, 17 July 2018
• The practice has taken many forms historically, including shock therapy and hypnosis, but the most common form today is talk therapy, according to the study.
  — Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY, 15 June 2022
• Paul Volcker’s shock therapy brought down inflation and made fiscal borrowing more acceptable to bond markets; meanwhile, the structural decline in growth rates enhanced the willingness of politicians to lean against sluggish growth.
  — Paul Swartz, Fortune, 3 Mar. 2022
• Some Republicans who are vociferously pro-Trump sound, in conversations about the Party’s future, more like Restorationists who regard him as a temporary jolt of shock therapy.
  — Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2020
• Some of the most extreme measures have included electric shock therapy, hormone regimens, physical abuse and internment.
  — Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2021
• Since rising to power last year after months of political violence, Mr. Ahmed, a former intelligence officer has sought to deliver shock therapy to one of the world’s most entrenched one-party systems.
  — Joe Parkinson, WSJ, 23 June 2019
• Because the problems are so large, shock therapy that increases numbers immediately might create a critical mass.
  — C. Brandon Ogbunu, Wired, 25 May 2021
• Because Jack and friends know that addressing institutional barriers requires much more than shock therapy.
  — C. Brandon Ogbunu, Wired, 25 May 2021

Last Updated: 1 Dec 2024