Sentence examples for and a bit startled from inspiring English sources

He seemed amused and a bit startled, as he often does; he tends to look like he's admiring life's absurdity even as he experiences it.

A medium shot of me in my goofy sun hat, gripping the steering wheel and looking a bit startled.

One goes to the skirt lady, one to the Buffalo lady, one to someone who had just popped in to go to the loo and looks a bit startled.

Here, Claires evident sanity and kindness draw the viewer to her side, and we are a bit startled to discover that she, like everybody else, has weak points and blind spots.

Tess is 10, and her mum, Nicola Harrison, looks a bit startled.

The reredos is decorated with candy-cane columns adorned with stripes and swirls, and panels of twining roses and the eye of God -- looking a bit startled -- gazing out of a puffy cloud centered in a sunburst.

The festival attracted Hare Krishna evangelists in pastel robes, motorcycle gang members in denim jackets festooned with patches and a scattering of curious blacks who seemed a bit startled to find themselves welcome.

Daisy Expósito-Ulla, chairwoman and chief executive of the Bravo Group, an advertising and marketing agency that focuses on Hispanic consumers, was a bit startled to be given a lifetime achievement award by Hispanic Business magazine.

I was a bit startled.

He saw that I was a bit startled.

Quinn looked a bit startled, then replied, "I'm really not".