The phrase "gets startled" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a reaction to a sudden or surprising event. For example, "The cat got startled when the fireworks went off."
Nevertheless, she still gets startled reactions.
He said he still gets startled thinking of the ads, remembering, "Oh, my God, they're talking about me!" "I'm a human being.
I'm riding on one when it gets startled by all the noise and takes off down the river with me hanging on for my life.
Kristopher Denard gets startled when he sees a pedestrian who isn't staring at him.
Think of the zebra in the wild, who gets startled by a lion, and bolts away in a flight response.
Without a panic strap, the horse may fall if it gets startled, potentially injuring itself or you.
Knowing this group, I won't be surprised if we get startled looks or blunt questions.
"I don't need the guy getting startled with a hundred-pound golden licking his face, and then rolling into the water," Smith recalled thinking.
I've had squirrels run up my arm and jump off my head; they get startled by the vibrations from the chain saw.
Every now and then, a group would get startled for no apparent reason and begin to run, with the panic spreading until hundreds were sprinting, and then the surge would stop as abruptly as it had begun.
Sometimes he thought getting startled like that when you were working on, say, the pipe-threading machine, and trying your best to concentrate, might be dangerous -- he'd seen guys get their sleeves ripped off their arms on that particular machine.
