Example sentences for: startling

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

  • Scorsese does crackerjack work, and some of the cruising imagery--not a bebop legato as in Taxi Driver but hyperfast and strobelike--is startling.

  • --in the first few minutes but, for all his startling juxtapositions, he never dramatizes it with anything approaching the clarity of, say, Brian De Palma's Casualties of War (1989).

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • East of the Forum des Halles, streets closed to traffic and lined with cafés, brasseries, art galleries, and boutiques link up with the startling Centre Georges-Pompidou.


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