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Often castigated for dragging their heels, they have for once acted with startling haste.
The loud metallic sound is startling and helps add impact to your verbal correction.
Kat shouted, throwing her tool kit to the ground, the sound startling the twins out of their fight.
In the middle of the third period, Aaron rushed into the classroom, startling everyone in the class.
Jason grabbed her arm roughly, his grasp startling her and shaking her from her thoughts.
These are startling things to hear from such a quiet, decent, mild-mannered man.
It slows so that you're able to discern the edges with startling sharpness.
This one moved with startling speed to capture a shore crab that was walking across the stone wall of a slipway.
Glaciers are powerful modificatory agents, and they can duplicate human flaking to a startling degree.
The most startling story we heard was one who said a neighbour was in bed and a tree fell on their home and cut it in two.
But the truly startling thing is that these ideas are apparently common currency among special-ops types today.
I have witnessed firsthand the startling inconsistency with which Corporate America deals with singledom.
The Maine wood loomed behind it, providing a contrast between civilization and pure, unadulterated nature that was almost startling.
He mounts photomontages of nightmarish imagery, amusing and dangerous, on all kinds of rich and startling supports.
She wore a gown of startling blue, hinting that her name should have been Sapphire.
One of the most startling public acts of deception and sleight of hand has been undertaken by the provincial government.
On downhill runs we would slice past the bellowing Buran, sometimes startling a snowy arctic hare as we rounded a bend.
The images shot forth in a flourish of colour and noise, startling him as a distant memory became unforgotten.
Nicolas suddenly snapped his fingers in front of my face, startling me back into reality.
Then he received some startling news from a phone call that all his searching was wasted.
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Examples from Classical Literature
His movement was so startling that Mrs. Pennyfeather emitted a faint, mouselike screech.
A wind-borne branch, falling on the roof, made a sudden racket that was startling.
This confirmation of the theologic theory is startling, and sets me meditating upon the moral possibilities of my garden.
The startling disappearance of Nita from the Rhodus house had filled him with vague alarm and unowned remorse.
Mr. warne did not seem in the least disconcerted by this startling statement.
In the noonday light the intense, opaline pallor of her face was startling.
Another startling feature is the sidelock, which sometimes grows upon the eyebrow.
This startling fact did not tally somehow with the idea Davidson had of Heyst.
On a morning in August the matron's report had closed with a startling item.
Were it possible to reduce the sum of human ideas to underived originals, the small numerical result would be startling.
She bestowed upon him a smile which was a startling combination of sharpness and appeal.
The proposal was a startling one, and the viscountess did not entertain it favorably.
A man with tenderer nerves than Foyle would have found it a startling journey.
These facts of allotropism have some corollaries connected with them rather startling to us of the nineteenth century.
Here I meet the annunciation of a character as august as it must have been startling.
Occasionally a degree of cyanosis develops that is quite startling for the untrained observer.
I continued, startling his sensibilities again with the noise of the snapper.
The observations of an Ingersoll which stood near me were particularly startling.
The diffidence of his tone proved startling to her by virtue of its unusualness.
There was likewise nothing startling in Bacons view of the Fathers, and their knowledge and authoritativeness.
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