1.   Explosions that occur at high enough altitudes will lay down severe shock and fire damage without the fireball ever contacting the ground.

2.   Occasionally, severe shocks will rock the system and urgent action will be needed.

3.   The farmer, who is not being identified for his own protection, escaped with minor facial injuries and severe shock.

4.   The first of these was accomplished with the discovery of a corn-drying oven but the second produced a severe shock.

5.   This is a severe shock to your fish and certainly not a way to maintain equilibrium.

6.   Severe shock can bring on an attack of acne.

7.   Both regions are thus largely independent of external constraints and can manage their policies without being thrown off course by any but the most severe external shocks.

8.   For project engineers, who have thought they were working in the national interest, the doubts of their countrymen have come as a severe shock.

9.   Indianapolis coach Jim Mora sat staring at the television minutes before his Colts would defeat Miami Sunday, sending the Dolphins franchise into a state of severe shock.

10.   Many refugees appear to be in severe shock from their ordeal in Kosovo.