Sentence examples for a sort of startled from inspiring English sources

Rather like an egret on a mudflat, he prowls around on his long legs with a sort of startled stillness.

I was sort of startled because it was in a public place.

A: Sort of.

"I think the commission was frankly sort of startled at that number," he said.

It was quite intimidating and I was sort of startled by the kind of calibre of the people who had turned up".

And at first I was sort of startled, and I'd think: 'Well, what do you mean you don't know the lines?

Part of me was sort of startled by how "pro" it felt.

Did I startle you with my fearless truth-telling?" shit, and then issuing a sort-of-apology in which he used the word "I" 13 times and the word "sorry" once.

When Mr. Farrakhan explained, as he did on "Donahue," that God created blacks who then served as the mothers and fathers of whites ("We are the father of all human beings"), nobody seemed startled by this race-driven conjoining of a sort of theology with a sort of anthropology.

"A sort of blank".

"A sort of dream.