Sentence example with the word 'startle'

startle

affright, awestrike, bowl over, discompose, flabbergast, jib, perplex, shy, start, take aback, warn

Definition n. a sudden involuntary movement

Last update: September 30, 2015


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This magician startle everybody with his tricks.   [Please select]

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How we controlled ourselves sufficiently as not to gasp and startle Howie awake, I don't know.   [Please select]

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Selyn wrenched the door open fast enough to startle Deidre.   [Please select]

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Rising without assistance, and seemingly without an effort, he demanded, in a voice that startled its auditors by its firmness: "What art thou."   [Please select]

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Fareham's deep tones startled the audience.   [Please select]

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So fresh, so easily startled.   [Please select]

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* * * * * It was within a week of that evening that the sisters were startled by the arrival of their father, unannounced, in the dusk of the winter afternoon.   [Please select]

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At that stage of her life she had seen so few men's faces; and this one had a power in it that startled her.   [Please select]

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Angela asked, suddenly, and the pain in her voice startled her sister from the contemplation of the sublime Mandane.   [Please select]

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We send to Paris for our clothes, and borrow their newest words--for they are ever inventing some cant phrase to startle dulness--and we make our language a foreign farrago.   [Please select]

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He appeared even more startled than Angela at the unexpected vision which met his gaze, faintly seen in the dim light.   [Please select]

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