How to Use culture shock in a Sentence

culture shock

noun
Definition of culture shocknext
  • Moving to the city was a huge culture shock for him.
  • Foreign students often experience culture shock when they first come to the U.S.
  • The move up north must have been a major culture shock for you?
    — Leeanne Griffin, courant.com, 25 Sep. 2017
  • It’s therefore quite a culture shock when Far Cry 6 drops you in a bustling cityscape from minute one.
    — Matt Gardner, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2021
  • On top of the sheer culture shock, Klári had to figure out how to be Mrs. John von Neumann, part two.
    — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Moving to Scotland in the late 1960s was a culture shock for Karen and Marc Ellington.
    — Ruth Bloomfield, WSJ, 14 July 2023
  • The culture shock, both on the court and off, left him severely homesick.
    — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Just the right amount of culture shock, and yet still with familiar things to enjoy.
    — Kaitlin Menza, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Aug. 2021
  • The cliché of culture shock has nothing to do with the film, a super welcome surprise.
    — Miles Marshall Lewis, Essence, 17 Apr. 2020
  • Joining a team that ranked 29th in defense was a bit of a culture shock for Powell.
    — oregonlive, 19 May 2021
  • Talk about culture shock — Da Vinci would have been amazed!
    — La Cañada Valley Sun, 12 Aug. 2019
  • And a lot of us are based in New York, so going to L.A. was another kind of culture shock too.
    — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 July 2021
  • The smiling staff wasn’t the only culture shock for customers.
    — Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2021
  • The change in environment was a culture shock for Hull in a number of ways.
    — Brande Victorian, Essence, 6 Aug. 2021
  • There's no way of knowing how players will respond to the culture shock.
    — J. Michael, The Indianapolis Star, 9 July 2020
  • The family moved back to the United States in the early ’90s when their son was in eighth grade, which proved to be a culture shock for him.
    — Olive Fellows, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Jan. 2022
  • Still, the change in scenery can definitely come as a culture shock.
    — David Martindale, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Having grown up in the Chicago area, Fresno was a culture shock.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2020
  • For Brooklyn-native Speier, his new home is still a culture shock.
    — John Carlisle, Detroit Free Press, 10 June 2018
  • The Bridgerton star is telling me about the culture shock of moving to Oxford, England, to study drama in her mid-20s.
    — Louis Staples, Harper's BAZAAR, 24 Mar. 2022
  • There was no culture shock at Butler, even though his high school was more diverse.
    — David Woods, The Indianapolis Star, 25 June 2020
  • To call it culture shock would be quite the understatement.
    — David Brandt, Chicago Tribune, 15 May 2023
  • The site’s founders say anyone from Ukraine who joins them in Germany should brace themselves for culture shock.
    — New York Times, 16 June 2022
  • Introducing the style of play to him, playing fast, this was a culture shock for a lot of players.
    — Brian Straus, SI.com, 4 Sep. 2019
  • Even those who had been on the orchestra’s 1992 Israel tour were feeling some culture shock about the city’s growth.
    — David Patrick Stearns, Philly.com, 3 June 2018
  • Homesickness, culture shock, and stress had started to take a toll.
    — Lauren Decicca, National Geographic, 21 Oct. 2019
  • Being the only Black player on the lacrosse team in high school was a culture shock for Ferguson.
    — Edward Lee, baltimoresun.com, 12 Mar. 2021
  • But moving from East Orange to Upper Darby was a culture shock in a huge way.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2020
  • Khloé would like her dog Gabbana to accompany her, but Kim thinks the climate in Ohio would be too much of a culture shock for the dog.
    — Mariah Smith, The Cut, 2 Oct. 2017
  • This is what makes the place such a culture shock to a family that has just relocated from New York City.
    — Time, 14 Oct. 2022

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