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Example sentences for: startling

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The Globe relays a "startling report transmitted on the world-wide internet" that Diana has been cloned by a "mad scientist" and that the baby will be born by the end of the year at a secret laboratory on an island off the coast of China.
Anderson takes everything fake in Cruise's acting--the face-pulling, the too-quick smile--and turns it into the character's own shtick, so that when the mask is pulled off you get a startling glimpse of the rage and fear under the pose.
Fen-phen consumption began to fall only this month, when the New England Journal of Medicine essentially withdrew its earlier cost-benefit argument with the emergency release of startling new fen-phen findings.
Originally a Roman settlement, Estepona preserves the remains of Moorish fortifications and watchtowers, an 18th-century parish church, and an expressionistic bullring, a startling piece of modern architecture which is beginning to look rather worse for wear.
Just 10 km (6 miles) farther east is the Manacas-Iznaga, where you can explore a lovely colonial hacienda house and its startling, rocket-shaped Torre de Manacas-Iznaga.