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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:

Gingrich on national educational testing, the Washington Post with a startling development in the Paula Jones lawsuit, and the Los Angeles Times leads with a local political story.
Here you will find the monumental red-domed government offices, an early 19th-century cathedral with a startling gold-painted interior, and a music hall (casa de la trova; see page 82) with whimsical flourishes.
His intensity was startling, but you couldn't be sure how to take him.
Peppered with wordplay, startling visual imagery, and near misses by the two lovers, the film has only one flaw, according to critics, namely that all the fancy footwork verges on becoming too self-conscious.
With so little in the way of industrial development elsewhere on the island, this zone is particularly startling.