1.   Even though she had tried to prepare herself for the possibility, the sense of shock hit her like a physical pain.

2.   But Monday a somber sense of reality hit spring camps like a Dick Butkus open-field tackle.

3.   When he suddenly wakes up, his sense of alarm hits you like a glass of cold water in the face.

4.   The sense of loss hit home with NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue, who remembered the heartbreak he felt when his Dodgers moved from Brooklyn.