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Example sentences for: startled

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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.
Perhaps we will one day be startled again by Godfrey Daniel!
The phone startled me.
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!
I was startled, indeed slightly shocked to hear this from my rather prim and proper friend.