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Example sentences for: startling

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The USAT front brings startling news for parents of infants: the government's Consumer Product Safety Commission is recalling nearly ten million foldable playpens because their raised rivets can strangle toddlers by catching on their clothes or pacifiers.
--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).
If Jackson's answer to that last question is really yes (which would be, I think, a startling answer), then we may in fact be talking about the AT&T decision all over again.
It's a startling admission--all the more shocking because it isn't true.
They aim to avoid embarrassing or intimidating others, either with display--of bare skin or startling color--or with a show of personal force.