Sentence examples similar to a startled gasp from inspiring English sources

His friends let out horrified, startled gasps.

The shootings here are graphic, as are beatings and other assaults, which at one screening brought startled gasps from teenagers accustomed to such things.

With Darfur, after his Administration initially denied that Darfur was indeed a genocide, he turned around in 2004 and announced to a startled Sudanese UN representative in the United Nations that "what's happening in Darfur is GENOCIDE". The world gasped.

A startled secretary looks on.

Kamya gave a startled laugh.

There was a startled meow.

A startled heron flapped away.

Rezak shrieked, a startled high-pitched sound.

"Mamma mia!" a startled Father Furgoni shouted.

She gives me a startled look.

A startled Lowell replies, "That's witty".