startle
Example Sentences
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I was also struck by its startling intimacy.
From Los Angeles Times
You walk up to a bunch of nice people in Hoosiers sweatshirts and you make the following, startling announcement:
People lingering at night along the shorelines of a small, affluent city north of Miami have been startled lately when they look up.
For their experiment, the pair identified brain cells in a mouse hippocampus that activated when the animal received a startling shock.
From Los Angeles Times
His lyrics also startle the way poems do.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
