So many times had he been here, yet each visit came as an unpleasant shock.

These changes must come to you as an unpleasant shock.

Other fears may be caused by unpleasant shock or injury.

She gets an unpleasant shock and is taken to the hospital.

It came as an unpleasant shock that Janellen looked almost pretty.

Whenever some very unpleasant shock had to be faced, she'd have done the same thing.

Then they both stepped back as if an unpleasant shock had gone through them.

Southey himself had just suffered an unpleasant shock of a different kind.

I turned to go into the building and got an unpleasant shock.

Some, however, got through but an unpleasant shock awaited them.