How to Use shock wave in a Sentence

shock wave

noun
  • The decision created a shock wave of criticism.
  • That would send a shock wave through the Horn of Africa and beyond.
    NBC News, 5 Nov. 2020
  • And the shock wave broke windows as far as 120 miles away.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 10 Aug. 2020
  • The first images of the eruption and shock wave could be seen from space.
    Judson Jones and Jennifer Gray, CNN, 17 Jan. 2022
  • When her body was found on Tuesday, a shock wave shook the world.
    Jeneé Osterheldt, kansascity, 5 June 2018
  • The ship was getting hit with these shock waves, just—BANG!
    Susan Casey, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The high-speed impact unleashed shock waves across the globe.
    Ray Sanchez, CNN, 2 Feb. 2020
  • The shock wave rattled the Green Berets inside the cookhouse.
    Michael M. Phillips, WSJ, 5 Dec. 2018
  • The blast set off a shock wave that was felt up to 230 feet away, Carrillo said.
    María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2022
  • When the shock wave crashes into the right side of the house, the chimney absorbs most of its force.
    Nathaniel Penn, Popular Mechanics, 3 June 2019
  • The award has sent shock waves through the former Yugoslavia and beyond.
    The Economist, 17 Oct. 2019
  • The loss sent shock waves across the world, and seemed to herald a new era of machine mastery over man.
    Will Knight, Wired, 21 Feb. 2020
  • That shock wave traveled around the world, also moving faster than the speed of sound.
    Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2022
  • Measure the angle of this shock wave and use it to estimate the speed of the baseball.
    Rhett Allain, Wired, 23 Sep. 2020
  • When a bomb goes off, the shock wave of the blast can actually harm some of the tissue in the parts of the brain that process sound.
    Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 30 Jan. 2019
  • His death sends shock waves through the coastal fishing business.
    Lawrence Specker | Lspecker@al.com, al, 19 Apr. 2020
  • The shock wave alone shattered windows two blocks away.
    Michael E. Miller, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2020
  • After Williamson left the game just 33 seconds into the contest, the shock waves spread around the sports world.
    Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 22 Feb. 2019
  • The high-level cuts sent shock waves through the division.
    Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The great majority of the trees got knocked down by the shock wave from the explosion.
    Jon Michaud, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2024
  • Per Physics Central: The initial tap to the bottle sends a shock wave through the glass to the bottle’s bottom.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 1 Jan. 2020
  • The blast and its shock wave blew out windows and flattened trees over hundreds of square miles.
    Denise Chow, NBC News, 26 Sep. 2022
  • The post also explains that the shock waves from a nuclear blast wouldn't raise the air pressure in the area around the storm.
    Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2019
  • The Cousins move sent shock waves through the NBA, with players, fans, and pundits weighing in throughout the night.
    Sarah Todd, Philly.com, 3 July 2018
  • Run-DMC was a shock wave, a hip-hop group that crossed over to the mainstream with a borderline punk sound.
    Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2022
  • His attack sent a shock wave through the sleepy suburbs of the southeast Valley.
    Robert Anglen, The Arizona Republic, 6 Mar. 2024
  • The shock wave burst open a billboard and left power lines dangling onto the street.
    Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2022
  • The blast triggered a shock wave that blew out windows, doors and walls miles away and was felt as far away as the island of Cyprus.
    Arkansas Online, 10 Sep. 2020
  • The blast propelled a massive fireball into the night sky, sent a shock wave of flying shrapnel that flattened Port Chicago and measured 3.4 on the Richter scale in nearby Berkeley.
    Katie Lauer, The Mercury News, 17 July 2024
  • Advertisement The value of the Japanese yen eased Monday, calming some more after an earlier surge sent shock waves through markets.
    Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2024

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