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Example sentences for: startling

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The audience was an untidy mix, milling and chattering in several languages and photographing each other during the long wait, some dressed in startling Westwoody costumes.
Alice Truax calls it "an excellent novel about enduring the banalities of ordinary life" ( The New Yorker ). Suzanne Berne in the New York Times Book Review agrees: "one of those rare, invigorating books that take an apparently familiar world and peer into it with ruthless intimacy, revealing a strange and startling place."
On Wednesday, the Future Homemakers of America made a startling announcement.
At first, Rosenbaum threatens to present his own startling solution to the mystery of Hitler.
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.