How to Use electroshock in a Sentence

electroshock

noun
  • Watch Goldberg discuss her mother getting electroshock treatment above.
    — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 2 May 2024
  • One is accused of assaulting Fanone with an electroshock weapon, one is charged with trying to steal his firearm and a third is accused of taking his badge and radio.
    — Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 6 May 2021
  • According to Peña and Álvarez’s attorney, he was beaten with a bat and tortured with electroshocks.
    — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The shooting reportedly hit an electrical wire which fell on the ground and caused electroshocks, which triggered more panic in the crowd, witnesses said.
    — Somayeh Malekian, ABC News, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Axon Enterprise — The maker of the Taser electroshock weapon surged 16%.
    — Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Axon Enterprise — The maker of the Taser electroshock weapon surged 15%.
    — Pia Singh, CNBC, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Axon Enterprise — The maker of the Taser electroshock weapon surged 22%.
    — Christina Cheddar Berk, CNBC, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Because the regime has a history of using psychiatric tools like drugs and electroshock against nonconformists, the video also has raised concerns about his safety.
    — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 31 May 2021
  • Experts testified that, over the course of those nine minutes, Lakey experienced over 3 minutes of electroshock.
    — Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com, 11 Nov. 2021
  • Tasers are electroshock weapons meant to temporarily incapacitate a person.
    — Elizabeth Depompei, The Indianapolis Star, 26 July 2021
  • San Diego police are looking for a man who used an electroshock weapon to threaten and rob an employee at a La Mesa smoke shop late Wednesday.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2021
  • But the past won’t be so easily left behind, as Ettore’s mother and brother abduct him and set him on a course of conversion therapy that includes ruinous electroshock treatment.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Like other researchers around the world, the Utah team traditionally studied animals with healthy brains, inducing seizures one at a time with chemicals or electroshock.
    — Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, Science | AAAS, 12 Dec. 2019
  • Axon Enterprise , the $45-billion company best known for the Taser electroshock weapon, has slipped 2% this year through Thursday.
    — Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 12 Dec. 2025
  • So Ekman decided to ground his next measurement tool in facial musculature, harkening back to Duchenne’s original electroshock studies.
    — Kate Crawford, The Atlantic, 27 Apr. 2021
  • The report said officers tried using PepperBall launchers at Porter to no effect, and an electroshock weapon also didn’t subdue Porter because of his thick winter coat.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 1 June 2022
  • By the late 1920s, police everywhere in the country used third-degree tactics such as brutal beatings, electroshock, and waterboarding to secure confessions.
    — Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 2 Nov. 2024
  • This cultivated at the end of Season 3, when Hank saved Cristobal from his estranged wife, who was trying to perform some kind of electroshock torture/conversion therapy on him.
    — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 1 May 2023
  • During the Franco era, Spain imposed legal restrictions on women in the workforce and sent homosexuals to camps, prisons and mental hospitals for electroshock treatment.
    — Anthony Faiola, Washington Post, 20 July 2023
  • Johansson passes the electroshock baton to Pugh as a heroic persona going forward in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 8 July 2021
  • His public defense attorney, Aaron Jensen, claims that Holder has a history of mental-health issues, including electroshock-therapy treatment.
    — Natalie Hope McDonald, Vulture, 2 June 2022
  • The treatment can also incorporate electroshock — a treatment briefly banned by the Food and Drug Administration before being reinstated last year.
    — Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2022
  • The chaotic sounds of feet tapping, knives clinking, and electroshocks buzzing create anxiety throughout the film, but when Para One’s music plays, the film communicates that de Saint Phalle has reached a breakthrough.
    — Sarah Belmont, ARTnews.com, 17 Dec. 2024
  • The site became overcrowded and used controversial treatments such as electroshock and insulin coma therapy, according to local reports, and since its abandonment, many visitors report paranormal activity in the former ward buildings.
    — Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Milioti deliciously and strategically navigates Sofia’s descent into the mad state of someone forced to endure the harsh living conditions of Arkham, the intense electroshock treatments, and the even more unforgivable sin of gaslighting.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 14 Oct. 2024
  • The case involving the fight with the officer in jail dates to November 2018, when Cruz was accused of assaulting an officer and grabbing his electroshock weapon while being held in a Fort Lauderdale jail.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 16 Oct. 2021
  • In an eight-count indictment unsealed Wednesday, a federal grand jury also charged Rodriguez with smashing a window of the Capitol and carrying deadly weapons — a flagpole and the electroshock weapon — during his unlawful presence in the building.
    — Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2021
  • The files revealed the experiments tested drugs (like LSD), sensory deprivation, hypnotism and electroshock on everyone from agency operatives to prostitutes, recovering drug addicts and prisoners—often without their consent.
    — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 22 May 2017

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