Sentence examples for have startled from inspiring English sources

What could have startled him?

The contradictory approaches have startled some of America's allies.

Two chilling elements of Monday's attack have startled even the most hardened detectives and criminologists.

PHOENIX — They have startled the residents of Ahwatukee, a bedroom community in southern Phoenix.

The only possible interference was that our alarm buzzer may have startled other groups or interfered with their concentration.

It might have startled him, but it couldn't have hurt him badly.

My footfalls must have startled a fish lurking on the banks.

(Though, to be sure, the covers of this magazine have startled a few readers and started a few fights).

Yet there is nothing in its main elements that should have startled a pre-Wicksellian traditional economist.

"My material existence was so primitive that it would have startled proletarians in Western countries," Milosz reflected later.

Those words, had they been read aloud, might have startled the President's blindest supporter and fiercest critic in equal measure.