Example sentences for: startlingly

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

  • The most feared (in a good-natured, humorous way) teen news--other than the startlingly high number of "your child was killed in a car crash" (in a lighthearted, frolicsome way)--was this: Your adolescent is enjoying sex and drugs.

  • Nevertheless, national politicians (notably Al Gore) are feasting on the issue, which a pollster calls "startlingly on track with voters."

  • Parents are working ever longer hours, and are startlingly frank about why: Staying home with the kids is "tedious work," especially when you could be out earning money in a self-esteem-enhancing workplace.

  • On the upside, John Leguizamo's performance as a philandering hairdresser is "raging, startlingly visceral" (Maslin, the New York Times ), and Lee's evocation of the tension that gripped the city--the blackouts, looting, and violence--is enthralling.

  • Sir Charles Wheatstone showed in 1838 that if two different perspective images were observed through a stereoscope so that each eye observed only one view, a startlingly realistic three-dimensional image occurred.


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