The floor does not move so your body has to absorb the shock of having to suddenly stop.

Below them, the sea absorbed the shock, as it did all things.

The lights went down before I could absorb the shock.

I stood silent while the two of them absorbed the shock.

Another theory proposed that some people couldn't absorb the shock of being in the wrong place and time.

He paused to let those who hadn't known absorb the shock of such a loss.

And he'd forgotten just how hard you had to press into the stock to absorb the shock.

He put that answer in cold storage, too, trying to absorb the shock.

This time investors were better prepared to absorb the shock.

It's of such magnitude that I'm not at all sure the country can absorb the shock.