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Example sentences for: startling

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

Seconds later a geyser erupts, startling the diners in the adjacent restaurant.
Tom Cruise thinking is the year's most startling special effect.
Although the Yukawa ads are startling, they make sense in the context of the Japanese veneration of what scholar Ivan Morris famously called "the nobility of failure," as well as what Moore calls "their emphasis on culpability and accountability."
I suppose when you compel actors to draw on their own resources, you have to take the banal with the startling.
Because of Turpan’s location in the Tarim Basin — at 79 m (260 ft) below sea level, this is the second-deepest continental basin in the world — it’s startling to discover here a sizeable city where houses are supplied with electricity and running water and shady trees line the streets.