Example sentences for: startlingly

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

  • 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).

  • 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).

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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