Example sentences for: startlingly

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

  • Even on its own terms this analysis is startlingly cynical.

  • Mainly this is because leading university departments value technical skill and originality rather than ideology (in fact, the profession is startlingly apolitical, given how politics-driven economics is outside the ivory tower).

  • Culturebox doesn't know the first thing about plagiarism law, but she has looked through both books (cursorily, it's true) and sees what Bruce means: Several passages, including descriptions of Bell's birthplace, of a demonstration of Bell's "harmonic telegraph," and of Bell's battles with Edward M. Gallaudet over sign language, are startlingly similar.

  • But Kate is meant to be zonked and zombielike, a Mummy Dearest, and this bedraggled ghost of a glamorous icon is startlingly potent.

  • It costs $349, startlingly high for a clock radio but not unreasonable if the claims are not overstated.


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