How to Use shocker in a Sentence
shocker
noun- The ending of the movie is a real shocker.
- Their divorce was a shocker.
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But there’s been lots of guys since then, and some shockers.
— Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 12 July 2019 -
That’s the biggest shocker of the night and a three-point play.
— Doug Feinberg, The Seattle Times, 29 Mar. 2019 -
This latest trade is just the next shocker in the rollicking fun of this summer.
— Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 12 July 2019 -
This was perhaps the biggest shocker from the interview.
— Michelle Manetti, Good Housekeeping, 17 Apr. 2019 -
So here's the shocker: minimum wage is a women's issue and an economic justice issue.
— Teen Vogue, 18 July 2019 -
The biggest shocker of the night occurred in the last few seconds of the episode, when Archie seemed to be unresponsive, a victim of a bear attack.
— Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 17 Jan. 2019 -
There was a clear inkling in the lead-up to the draft that Bol could be in for a precipitous fall, but watching him slip all the way into the middle of the second round was still a bit of a shocker.
— Jeremy Woo, SI.com, 21 June 2019 -
The team expected to find the presence of silicon, iron and phosphorous in the spectrum, but their discovery of a different element was a shocker.
— Rachel Crowell, Scientific American, 31 May 2019 -
That shocker, married with the stress of the state of politics here, the climate disaster, plus a personal mental health crisis, forced me to start taking self-care seriously.
— Sarah Raphael, refinery29.com, 23 July 2019 -
While one of the biggest shockers of the series is the big reveal that Nolan's sister, Taylor, is actually still alive, Nolan doesn't have a sister in the books.
— Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 4 Apr. 2019 -
As a result, Perkins and the Tide won a shocker in the Iron Bowl.
— Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 10 Dec. 2020 -
So, yeah, the Giants were a shocker, and Kapler pulled the strings.
— John Shea, SFChronicle.com, 30 Sep. 2020 -
And in a slight shocker, the Saints opted to waive him.
— Amie Just | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 5 Sep. 2020 -
The shocker is the downshift Pinto sees in the months ahead.
— Shawn Tully, Fortune, 26 June 2022 -
What a shocker to pull the curtain back on the biggest bands of their era.
— Star Tribune, 2 July 2021 -
The kinds of people who like to get mad about Meghan Markle are — shocker!
— Jeva Lange, The Week, 9 June 2021 -
In a shocker, the Rockets left draft night last week with the prospect many hoped the team would land all along.
— Rahat Huq, Chron, 27 June 2022 -
It’s a real funky bass shocker that’s not to be missed.
— Billboard Staff, Billboard, 9 July 2021 -
The Avs’ loss in Seattle on Wednesday was the one shocker, and yet not so much.
— Steve Svekis, Sun Sentinel, 22 Apr. 2022 -
Yorkville’s Ben Alvarez being in the right place at the right time is not a big shocker.
— Rick Armstrong, Chicago Tribune, 7 Oct. 2022 -
So what’s on his mind as the show moves beyond that shocker of a finale?
— Jessica Derschowitz, Variety, 8 Aug. 2022 -
So his breakout through four games isn’t a shocker to the Jacksonville brass.
— Albert Breer, SI.com, 30 Sep. 2019 -
Big changes are a bit of a theme in Episode 1, as Daniel delivers a shocker of his own.
— Nick Caruso, TVLine, 18 July 2024 -
And Beau's mother—not dead, in a shocker—has been watching from the shadows the whole time.
— Evan Romano, Men's Health, 22 Apr. 2023 -
But even so, last night's death was a true shocker that has fans reeling.
— Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 12 Mar. 2021 -
As such, the Meyer case served as a precursor for the Shell shocker.
— Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 26 Apr. 2023 -
But the idea that the studio would cast the same actor who played Iron Man, one of its most beloved heroes, as the iconic villain was a shocker.
— Brendan Morrow, USA TODAY, 28 July 2024 -
No shocker here: Real Ozempic is sold under the brand name of Ozempic.
— Korin Miller, Flow Space, 1 Aug. 2024
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