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Example sentences for: startled

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I was startled, indeed slightly shocked to hear this from my rather prim and proper friend.
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.
No, what startled were Johnson's other jobs: in addition to running Fannie Mae, he is also chairman of the Kennedy Center, Washington's Big Culture box, and the Brookings Institution, Washington's leading liberal/centrist think tank.
“Turning a corner of the Mazza Gallerie into a women's tennis store, I was startled to see ...
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.