Sentence examples for like startled from inspiring English sources

They stood like startled rabbits, inert and afraid.

And during which batsmen on both sides skittered about at the crease like startled kittens.

The galleries have fled like startled pigeons, mostly to Chelsea, some to 57th Street.

When bats wake up in late March, their immune systems react like startled homeowners who realize prowlers are inside the house.

Cy Twombly is known for paintings in which febrile clusters of lines, words and symbols scatter like startled graffiti across planes of faint color or bare canvas.

But as the music continued, as disc followed disc, the cries began to rise out of the crowd like startled birds.

Ms Hollekim likes spotting startled birds that nest in cracks in the rock or, jumping from skyscrapers, to study roofs of smaller buildings as they rise up.

Eichner likes to startle people.

He likes to startle viewers with novel forms and with claims that his projects are helping to undermine the grand Western tradition.

Mille puts on a terrific high-wire act he likes to startle journalists by tossing his RM 001 across the room but he doesn't exactly work without a net.

My eyes, prophetic, recoiled Like a startled eaglet's.