What is "shocks"

Usage examples of "shocks".

Short shocks of rocket blasts alternated with nauseating weightlessness.

Even so, they could all feel the shocks through their bootsoles, as the big guns chewed the attackers' pods to bits.

Certainly in terms of earth psychiatry, those two traumatic shocks were sufficient to cause a psychosis if you tended to be psychotic.

Some of the growling fell below his range of hearing, and sound shocks flew up and down his spine.

Those who had been unduly distressed by the shocks of the last hour were being comforted.

Her electrical skills--especially her uncanny ability to avoid live wires and unnecessary shocks and to dowse exactly the trouble spot in the mass of circuit conduits needed by spaceships--should have alerted someone long ago to her latent Talent.

Then she felt a series of concussive shocks through her paper-slippered feet, and she winced.

It liked that no better than the other shocks this wretched back-water system had given it.

As there were no further shocks penetrating to the mainland the geologists were able to dispel the ripple of uncertainty that had marred the Thanksgiving festivities.

Alessan liked all his bad news at once so he could absorb the different shocks according to their merits.

Once Leri got over her shocks, she'd begin to see the humor of the whole adventure, that the sheer reckless momentum had worked to their advantage.

The other Lord Holders who had been present had received salutary shocks: the murder of a dragonrider, an attack on a MasterHarper, and then Fax's rejection of Tarathel's valid judgment on the assassin.

Yet the two men, though the stamp of their mutual sire was apparent in the thick shocks of black hair, the strong features, the lean rangy bodies (F'nor had a squarer, broader frame with not enough flesh on his bones so that he appeared unfinished), the two men were different in temperament and personality.

Nothing is more real than these great shocks which two souls convey to each other by the exchange of that spark.

Such encounters are shocks, and the memory that they leave behind them resembles a thorough shaking up.