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"Startle" in a Sentence (19 examples)
I didn't mean to startle you.
We don't want to startle anyone.
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to startle you.
Did I startle you?
It might startle them.
Ziri doesn't want to startle that spider.
The beautiful and outlandish designs in “Savage Beauty,” culled from McQueen’s 20-year career, have the power to startle and enthrall.
Ziri didn't want to startle Rima.
Ziri didn't want to startle the spirits.
Slowly and cautiously, Rodrigo approached the beautiful butterfly, trying not to startle it.
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a horse that startles easily
Why shrinks the soul / Back on herself, and startles at destruction?
He felt, too, that he was acting unjustly by Ethel: he had allowed a fortnight to elapse—he startled when he numbered up the days; it is strange how we allow them to glide imperceptibly away.
The supposition, at least, that angels do sometimes assume bodies need not startle us.
Nothing could startle her, make her scold or make her cry. She did not complain, she did not rebel.
The high voice in the night air startled me. Without thinking, I started to run. Then stopped. I spun around, my heart heaving against my chest. And saw a boy. About my age.
it would blast all their hopes, and startle all other princes from joining
As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain, and he fled away with a cameo note.
The figure of a man heaving in sight amidst these wide solitudes, always causes a startle and thrill of expectation and doubt, similar to the feeling produced by the announcement of " a strange sail ahead" on shipboard, during a long voyage.
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