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Example sentences for: startled

How can you use “startled” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

However, the chocolate-faced god is quite gaily decorated in hues of red, yellow, and blue, and his round, white-circled eyes look more startled than fierce.
Perhaps we will one day be startled again by Godfrey Daniel!
This week a reader wrote, noting that out of a dozen plays he had seen which are currently running in London, he had been startled by language that he rated “obscene” in no fewer than ten.
The Post reports that during commercial breaks, while the startled Clintonites held whispered conferences, aides fanned out into the noisy parts of the arena to calm those (numbering about 200, guesses the Times ) chanting "We don't want your racist war."
I remember being startled when a college professor visiting our town told me after an hour's conversation, mainly on the street, that I was college material and would do rather well there--something that guidance counselors and teachers at my high school had never said, despite my appetite for Shakespeare.