Example sentences for: startlingly

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

  • In the same radio interview--the first the German public had ever heard from him--Naumann also outlined the startlingly ambitious program he'd undertake if Schroeder were elected: federalizing the arts budget in a country in which the arts are mainly supported by the states; revitalizing the German film industry by calling on his Hollywood pals to import more German films, and so on.

  • La Boqueria is also a startlingly vibrant community, where shoppers and merchants greet each other by name, ribald sallies across the aisles set off gales of laughter, and the freshness of the rape (an angler fish popular in Catalonia) is debated with the passion of a traffic mishap.

  • The Peak Tram starts its scenic climb just across the street and around the corner from the American Consulate in Garden Road and makes its way, sometimes at a startlingly steep incline, to the summit at 398 m (1,305 ft).

  • Prusiner's hypothesis is that fatal brain maladies such as mad-cow disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease are caused not by viruses, bacteria, fungi, or some other mundane agent but by something startlingly new that he has discovered--mutant, rampaging proteins known as "prions," short for "proteinaceous infectious particles."

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


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