The shock, sharp and sudden as it was, only lasted for a second.

"It will take a short, sharp shock to bring an end to this," he said.

This news was a sharp shock to me, for I had my ideas about his real destination.

What the situation called for was a short, sharp shock.

Smacking, on the other hand, is a short, sharp shock.

Many of us will have started our new year diet with a short sharp shock - and are now feeling very hungry indeed.

Then he felt his knee go out with another sharp shock of pain.

We soldiers will know how to give them a short sharp shock.

They wanted to teach her a lesson, a short sharp shock.

On the other hand, the time contact being made, a sharp shock would bring about the explosion at once.