How to Use shock jock in a Sentence

shock jock

noun

• Last week’s episode focused on the rise and fall of Howard Stern and other radio shock jocks.
  — Mike Rose, cleveland, 22 Aug. 2023
• Prank calls have long been the domain of of radio shock jocks and bored juveniles.
  — Kevin Kelleher, Fortune, 29 June 2018
• The radio shock jock Howard Stern once played a clip of a voicemail message from Gottfried.
  — NBC News, 12 Apr. 2022
• The controversial shock jock died this past week at 79.
  — Robert Forster, CBS News, 29 Dec. 2019
• Imus engaged in a long-running feud with shock jock Howard Stern, who usurped Imus' position as the No.
  — Arkansas Online, 28 Dec. 2019
• The shock jock might be less forthcoming about his personal wealth.
  — Fox News, 9 Aug. 2018
• Williams began her career in radio and gained renown for her role as a shock jock on New York’s Hot 97 radio station.
  — Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2022
• Imus frequently sparred with fellow shock jock Howard Stern, who usurped Imus' position as the No.
  — Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY, 28 Dec. 2019
• The Norm established Sorokin as a provocateur, a shock jock of late Soviet letters.
  — Jennifer Wilson, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
• Some American cognoscenti have since treated Wolfe as somehow suspect: a shock jock with a poet’s command of the language.
  — Janan Ganesh, Town & Country, 8 Dec. 2017
• There were never any shock jock antics, no anger, indignation, or sarcasm.
  — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 26 Mar. 2020
• Corona also got into an on-air argument with Howard Stern after the shock jock made disparaging comments about the death of Selena.
  — Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle, 18 Nov. 2019
• That same morning Howard Stern interviewed Buress on his radio show, and the shock jock made the most of the controversy to promote Hannibal’s appearance.
  — Longreads, 7 June 2019
• Radio shock jock Alex Jones permanently banned from Twitter.
  — Fox News, 8 Sep. 2018
• Conservative shock jock Rush Limbaugh railed against the document.
  — Melanie Mason, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Nov. 2022
• Howard Stern is breaking his silence after a 1993 sketch showing the radio shock jock repeatedly using the N-word in blackface has resurfaced online.
  — Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY, 16 June 2020
• One question triggered a tense exchange between Vice President Kamala Harris and a radio shock jock.
  — Rick Klein, ABC News, 20 Dec. 2021
• At the height of tensions over the theater, Abbate posted a message on the marquee mourning the death of Rush Limbaugh, an early shock jock known for demonizing Democrats, feminists and the gay community.
  — Diana Marcum, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2021
• Driscoll was the shock jock of American evangelicalism, never far from a controversy.
  — Kirsten Powers, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2017
• Legendary radio shock jock Don Imus is generating controversy even in death.
  — NBC News, 6 Jan. 2020
• Charlamagne, the show’s most recognizable personality, got his start in South Carolina and later became a protege of shock jock Wendy Williams.
  — Washington Post, 17 July 2019
• In the hands of a lesser storyteller, we would be encouraged to instantly dislike Birdie for her selfishness and repeated political incorrectness, and Duke for his lib-owning shock jock persona.
  — Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 28 Dec. 2022
• Hubbard's opponents -- including conservative British shock jock Piers Morgan -- argue that being a transgender woman, or a woman who was assigned male at birth, gives her an unfair physical advantage.
  — Julia Hollingsworth, CNN, 3 July 2021
• Akademiks, who previously streamed on Twitch, embodies the conservative shock jock as a reductive, adversarial, patriarchal figure, resolute on amplifying the worst stereotypes of Black people.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 22 Jul 2024