STARTLE in a Sentence
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220 example sentences for STARTLE, such as:
1. I didn't mean to startle you.
2. You startled me I didn't hear you come in.
3. It startled me to find her sitting in my office.
4. Scarlett was so startled she could not even move.
5. Paddy's words had a startling effect on the children.
2. You startled me I didn't hear you come in.
3. It startled me to find her sitting in my office.
4. Scarlett was so startled she could not even move.
5. Paddy's words had a startling effect on the children.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of STARTLE
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startle
v. to stimulate to action
v. move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm
Classic Sentence: (206 in 14 pages)
1 Mrs. Dorset might startle or dazzle him, but she had neither the skill nor the patience to effect his capture.
2 The words, and the movement which accompanied them, combined to startle Lily out of the state of tranced subservience into which she had insensibly slipped.
3 He beckoned to the little boy they called Jan, whispered to him, and presented him with a paper snake, gently, so as not to startle him.
4 It was a relief to get out of the room where the night had been so miserable, and I needed no second knocking at the door to startle me from my uneasy bed.
5 But when Rowena spoke, the sound of her voice seemed to startle him from his silence.
6 On them, while the beaters run up and down, and the lawns are girt with toils, will I pour down a blackening rain-cloud mingled with hail, and startle all the sky in thunder.
7 He had supposed her to be asleep, and the sound of her voice had startled him, though she was given to abrupt explosions of speech after long intervals of secretive silence.
8 As she had intended, Gerald was startled by the sound; then he recognized her, and a look both sheepish and defiant came over his florid face.
9 So, James and Andrew were as startled as anyone when the news came out that the daughter of Pierre Robillard was to marry the little Irishman from up the country.
10 The girls' faces turned to her, startled and questioning, and Gerald wagged his head philosophically.
11 There was a startled silence and then the buzzing broke out again.
12 Nothing had ever startled or frightened her so much, and her mouth went too dry for her to utter a sound.
13 The reality was the blushing Charles, emerging from her dressing room in his nightshirt, avoiding the startled look she gave him over the high-pulled sheet.
14 Scarlett was so startled she could not even move.
15 But in that first startled moment she did not feel insulted.
Example Sentence:
1 Even the least noise would still startle the timid child.
2 I didn't mean to startle you.
3 She was concentrating on her book and his voice startled her.
4 The students began to enter the classroom and Anna was startled at their loudness.
5 You startled me I didn't hear you come in.
6 It startled me to find her sitting in my office.
7 She was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off.
8 Macbeth was startled when the witches greeted him with an incorrect appellation. Why did they call him Thane of Cawdor, he wondered, when the holder of that title still lived?.
9 Remaining motionless is their best defense, but when startled, snowshoes rely on their long, powerful hind legs to run away from danger.
10 A researcher a year ago published startling research showing that the drug commonly known as ecstasy can cause Parkinson's-like brain damage.
11 It was startling to see the spirit of nationalism resurge as the Soviet Union disintegrated into a loose federation of ethnic and national groups.
12 A startling cultural transformation occurred in post - war Britain.
13 Paddy's words had a startling effect on the children.
14 Jesus taught that life does not end after our bodies die. He made this startling claim: I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me, even though they die like everyone else, will live again.