Sentence examples for as startled from inspiring English sources

He looked almost as startled as I was.

The keeper was as startled as he was stranded.

"But I was as startled as anyone about the impact that 'House of Cards' made.

So he was as startled to discover Carlebach's music as he was Fela's.

The Speaker was as startled as me, and said he hoped to see photographs.

Do you happen to know who lives there?" "I do," she said, as startled as I.

The anthology was reprinted twice in the UK under different titles; as Startling Stories in 1954, published by Cassell, and then in 1956 as a Science Fiction Book Club edition titled Moment in Time.

Weed dealers, on the other hand, are invariably private schoolboys happy to tread water on the first rung of the ladder or guys with greying beards who are as lazy and as easily startled as cats.

IAG, which owns Iberia as well as British Airways, startled staff working for the Spanish carrier with an announcement on Friday of deep cuts "to save Iberia".

In the 1933 movie "Rufus Jones for President," when he was seven years old, he played a world leader who sang and tap-danced with a ferocity that didn't so much amuse as startle: he would not be ignored.

Hence, these eyespots might be regarded as startle coloration [8].