Sentence examples for it would startle from inspiring English sources

He picked up a rotting banana skin and hung it on the leaves of a neem tree that grew near the gate of the house, so that it would startle the owners when they came out.

I thought I'd startle the pokers and prodders, so I suddenly sat up and said, "All right, that's enough!" Opening my eyes to examine my surroundings, I felt like I had been teleported through a time machine to the early '50s.

Though an ass cake would startle anyone, it was the insane amount of detail that branded the image into my mind forever.

Yet in almost every international crisis, a wide array of contingency plans -- including the kind of aggressive military actions that would startle the public if it were known they were under discussion -- are roughed out by military and intelligence planners.

On clear nights, he said, David would put on his parka and sit up on the roof with his telescope, binoculars around his neck, staring at the constellations and "looking like the abominable snowman". Brian said it did not matter to his brother that his appearance would startle a neighbor out walking his dog.

We were able to do this on a timer, and had plans to incorporate a microphone so that a loud noise would startle the bird out of its shell.

Indeed, Lodestar's songs' body count would startle a Norwegian death metal band.

The upshot is a pipe-smoking, jodphur-wearing steampunk technologist who would startle even Lane Fox.

The World Cup case that drew the most attention was hardly a sin that would startle the squeamish.

(The librarian, warmly supportive of my forays into Edwardian belles-lettres, would startle and flinch at my betrayal).

There is Aaron Burr, who would startle the noisy Senate into silence with "the little hammer in his graceful little hand".