startlingly
Example Sentences
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Gelsomina becomes startlingly conscious of a wider world beyond her carefully curated habitat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
The star returned to the spotlight last year with her fifth album West End Girl - a startlingly honest account of the breakdown of her marriage to actor David Harbour.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
“Wolf Moon” is concise and tightly coiled, yet it stretches across a startlingly long period of time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
His first major recording boasted startlingly propulsive performances of Beethoven’s Fifth and Seventh Symphonies, with the uproarious Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela, recorded 20 years ago this month.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026
The plunder had been startlingly circumstanced, but its issue had been all I could have hoped.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
