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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:

How do you know all this, asked the startled teacher.
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."
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.
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.
He startled us once by saying that his older brother had fought in the American Civil War, and that his grandfather had fought against Napoleon in 1815!