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Example sentences for: startling

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A "store insider" at the Erewhon supermarket on Beverly Boulevard breaks the startling news that Love Boat captain and Mary Tyler Moore stalwart Gavin McLeod "is crazy about our almond butter."
On Wednesday, the Future Homemakers of America made a startling announcement.
But he also launches into a rather startling anti-math rap.
Garth Brooks shocks the world by putting out a pop album under the fictional persona of Chris Gaines, giving himself a radical makeover complete with soul patch, eye makeup and, most startling of all, no cowboy hat: "[H]e looks a bit like Trent Reznor crossed with a guy who eats a lot of cheese steaks" (Christopher John Farley, Time ). The music, though, is anything but shocking.
Newspapers in both countries call the Indian government's response to the hijacking of Indian Airlines Flight 814 "bungled and botched" (the Hindu of Madras) and a "startling muddle" ( Dawn of Pakistan).