How to Use culture shock in a Sentence

culture shock

noun

• Moving to the city was a huge culture shock for him.
• Foreign students often experience culture shock when they first come to the U.S.
• The move up north must have been a major culture shock for you?
  — Leeanne Griffin, courant.com, 25 Sep. 2017
• It’s therefore quite a culture shock when Far Cry 6 drops you in a bustling cityscape from minute one.
  — Matt Gardner, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2021
• On top of the sheer culture shock, Klári had to figure out how to be Mrs. John von Neumann, part two.
  — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 7 Apr. 2022
• Moving to Scotland in the late 1960s was a culture shock for Karen and Marc Ellington.
  — Ruth Bloomfield, WSJ, 14 July 2023
• The culture shock, both on the court and off, left him severely homesick.
  — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Jan. 2023
• Just the right amount of culture shock, and yet still with familiar things to enjoy.
  — Kaitlin Menza, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Aug. 2021
• The cliché of culture shock has nothing to do with the film, a super welcome surprise.
  — Miles Marshall Lewis, Essence, 17 Apr. 2020
• Joining a team that ranked 29th in defense was a bit of a culture shock for Powell.
  — oregonlive, 19 May 2021
• Talk about culture shock — Da Vinci would have been amazed!
  — La Cañada Valley Sun, 12 Aug. 2019
• And a lot of us are based in New York, so going to L.A. was another kind of culture shock too.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 July 2021
• The smiling staff wasn’t the only culture shock for customers.
  — Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2021
• The change in environment was a culture shock for Hull in a number of ways.
  — Brande Victorian, Essence, 6 Aug. 2021
• There's no way of knowing how players will respond to the culture shock.
  — J. Michael, The Indianapolis Star, 9 July 2020
• The family moved back to the United States in the early ’90s when their son was in eighth grade, which proved to be a culture shock for him.
  — Olive Fellows, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Jan. 2022
• Still, the change in scenery can definitely come as a culture shock.
  — David Martindale, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Jan. 2024
• Having grown up in the Chicago area, Fresno was a culture shock.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2020
• For Brooklyn-native Speier, his new home is still a culture shock.
  — John Carlisle, Detroit Free Press, 10 June 2018
• The Bridgerton star is telling me about the culture shock of moving to Oxford, England, to study drama in her mid-20s.
  — Louis Staples, Harper's BAZAAR, 24 Mar. 2022
• There was no culture shock at Butler, even though his high school was more diverse.
  — David Woods, The Indianapolis Star, 25 June 2020
• To call it culture shock would be quite the understatement.
  — David Brandt, Chicago Tribune, 15 May 2023
• The site’s founders say anyone from Ukraine who joins them in Germany should brace themselves for culture shock.
  — New York Times, 16 June 2022
• Introducing the style of play to him, playing fast, this was a culture shock for a lot of players.
  — Brian Straus, SI.com, 4 Sep. 2019
• The upshot for job-seeking coders is confusion, culture shock, and hours of work done for free.
  — Lauren Goode, WIRED, 22 Feb. 2024
• Even those who had been on the orchestra’s 1992 Israel tour were feeling some culture shock about the city’s growth.
  — David Patrick Stearns, Philly.com, 3 June 2018
• Homesickness, culture shock, and stress had started to take a toll.
  — Lauren Decicca, National Geographic, 21 Oct. 2019
• Being the only Black player on the lacrosse team in high school was a culture shock for Ferguson.
  — Edward Lee, baltimoresun.com, 12 Mar. 2021
• When his family returned to France, the culture shock was extreme for 15-year-old Mazzia.
  — Jess McHugh, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
• Those subtle culture shocks caused missteps and confusion in all facets of my life, from housekeeping to health care to shopping.
  — Theresa Conroy, Travel + Leisure, 14 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024