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How to use startled in a sentence

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Adam looked down, startled to see his little brother's face looking worriedly up at him.
The Kickapoos quirted their ponies upslope from the creek bed, charging the horse herd and its startled guards.
At the police station, Officers Anderson and Patrick were both startled from private musings when the alarm bell rang.
They seemed startled by the realization they could actually craft iamb, anapest, anapest, and have it come out a poem.
There is an instant change from mild anger and heavy annoyance to startled astonishment and disbelief.
The door bell rang again and both girls were startled by the sudden ringing sound that seemed a hundred times louder then usual.
Many were killed because a rope might break or because a climber could be startled by the sudden appearance of a furious bird.
We were all startled by the transformation, as if a man had risen from the dead.
The pain startled him out of his thoughts, but a quick rub of the injury relieved the throbbing.
Some of the initial results of the 2001 Census certainly startled the mathematical boffins.
She looked startled by the question, and a hint of sadness pervaded the atmosphere around her.
She thrust the basket at him, and he was so startled that his knees sagged beneath the weight.
The stones at the bottom were covered in green and brown slime and a school of small fish swam past them, startled.
I saw one group of traders run off like a startled herd, while three police, like a pack of hunting dogs, scragged the least nimble.
A loud bang accompanied with boisterous laughter startled her out from her thoughts and she groaned to herself.
When the door had banged open so suddenly, she had been startled enough to let out a yelp loud enough for anyone in the house to hear.
She inched up the wall, startled by the scuffs she had never noticed and then the dirty, unpolished glass that held but spots of reflection.
I was certainly startled by the two people I saw masquerading as my parents.
It was only his second day of work, and the mage's stern, matriarchal demeanor somewhat startled him.
I started reading, flipping through the pages, startled at my own memory for the things we both wrote about.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Santos looked startled, but he cranked the phone several times, talked in Ilokano, and finally handed the phone to Rick.
Kurus knew the vow of Arjun, heard the sankha's deathful blare, As it rose above the red field, thrilled the startled morning air!
But Mr. Monday was startled by the near approach of death, rather than repentant.
A reedbuck was startled out of the grass and noisily ran away, giving the alarm.
The tone of his voice, now soft and diffident, startled Hardy out of his dream.
Eveley, startled on the threshold of the service club, looked up into the face of the blue-eyed Bemis salesman.
We are startled, and remain standing, only to find that it is a photographer working in his shop by the magnesium light.
It startled the speaker and audience, and kindled a storm of unsuppressed laughter and applause.
His eyes are never startled or his nerves shaken by the scare headlines of yellow journalism.
The change in him startled her and reawakened all the love she'd ever felt for him.
Yet there had been a look on her face when she saw those two which startled and hurt him.
As Hal watched, he saw a stocky figure come striding round the corner, confronting the startled old Slovak.
I was startled out of my confidence by the sound of terrific yells, just as I stepped cautiously into the water jump.
I began to watch him, desultorily, and was rather startled by something more than a suspicion that he himself was watching me.
The maiden looked up suddenly, like an infant startled from sweet dreams by some rude noise.
Magdalena started, as if this voice, breaking the silence of the room, had startled her.
He turned so white, under the coat of brown the mountains had given, that Malvine was startled.
When these unselfconscious fellows are startled into selfconsciousness, I fancy they take it hard.
And the Waler's rider, as if startled by the cry, suddenly and convulsively slashed the animal's withers.
When she woke she was startled to see by her wrist watch that it was after eleven.
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