How to Use electroshock in a Sentence

electroshock

noun
  • Is that a patch where the apply electroshock treatments?
    Miriam Fauzia, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2018
  • The electroshock therapy may have even worked too well.
    Fiona Taylor, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017
  • San Diego police are looking for a man who used an electroshock weapon to threaten and rob an employee at a La Mesa smoke shop late Wednesday.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2021
  • One is accused of assaulting Fanone with an electroshock weapon, one is charged with trying to steal his firearm and a third is accused of taking his badge and radio.
    Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 6 May 2021
  • Experts testified that, over the course of those nine minutes, Lakey experienced over 3 minutes of electroshock.
    Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com, 11 Nov. 2021
  • Because the regime has a history of using psychiatric tools like drugs and electroshock against nonconformists, the video also has raised concerns about his safety.
    Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 31 May 2021
  • The case involving the fight with the officer in jail dates to November 2018, when Cruz was accused of assaulting an officer and grabbing his electroshock weapon while being held in a Fort Lauderdale jail.
    BostonGlobe.com, 16 Oct. 2021
  • But the past won’t be so easily left behind, as Ettore’s mother and brother abduct him and set him on a course of conversion therapy that includes ruinous electroshock treatment.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 6 Sep. 2022
  • The report said officers tried using PepperBall launchers at Porter to no effect, and an electroshock weapon also didn’t subdue Porter because of his thick winter coat.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 1 June 2022
  • Like other researchers around the world, the Utah team traditionally studied animals with healthy brains, inducing seizures one at a time with chemicals or electroshock.
    Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, Science | AAAS, 12 Dec. 2019
  • Johansson passes the electroshock baton to Pugh as a heroic persona going forward in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 8 July 2021
  • Mr. Wiseman’s proposed treatment, though, is extreme, almost the equivalent of electroshock therapy.
    Brian Seibert, New York Times, 2 May 2017
  • The treatment can also incorporate electroshock — a treatment briefly banned by the Food and Drug Administration before being reinstated last year.
    Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2022
  • In an eight-count indictment unsealed Wednesday, a federal grand jury also charged Rodriguez with smashing a window of the Capitol and carrying deadly weapons — a flagpole and the electroshock weapon — during his unlawful presence in the building.
    Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2021
  • She was treated with electroshock therapy and medication.
    Anthony McCartney, Esquire, 19 June 2017
  • So Ekman decided to ground his next measurement tool in facial musculature, harkening back to Duchenne’s original electroshock studies.
    Kate Crawford, The Atlantic, 27 Apr. 2021
  • During the trial, witnesses described a gallery of torture techniques: detainees were brutally and regularly beaten, suspended from their hands and subjected to electroshock and housed in filthy conditions for weeks if not months.
    Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2022
  • Tasers are electroshock weapons meant to temporarily incapacitate a person.
    Elizabeth Depompei, The Indianapolis Star, 26 July 2021
  • His public defense attorney, Aaron Jensen, claims that Holder has a history of mental-health issues, including electroshock-therapy treatment.
    Natalie Hope McDonald, Vulture, 2 June 2022
  • The files revealed the experiments tested drugs (like LSD), sensory deprivation, hypnotism and electroshock on everyone from agency operatives to prostitutes, recovering drug addicts and prisoners—often without their consent.
    Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 22 May 2017
  • The files revealed the experiments tested drugs (like LSD), sensory deprivation, hypnotism and electroshock on everyone from agency operatives to prostitutes, recovering drug addicts and prisoners—often without their consent.
    Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 22 May 2017

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