Sentence examples for looking startled from inspiring English sources

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Keaton, wearing an eye patch, finally faces the camera, looking startled and wary.

A woman looking startled in her car is pure Eggleston, minus the rich colours.

Now the city council and the Scottish executive are left looking startled, shutting doors when a very wild horse indeed has bolted.

(Board book; ages 1 to 5) Sandra Boynton squeezes a good deal of humor out of animals looking startled, bemused or thoroughly exhilarated by the ridiculous things their bodies do, and this latest board book is no exception.

Marclay wanted "The Clock" to feature the occasional outlandish fragment — an explosion from "The Aviator," at 11 17 A.M., led into Al Pacino looking startled, in "88 Minutes" — but he felt that overrelying on melodrama wouldn't work in such a long video; it would be like composing an opera with nothing but cymbal crashes.

Now the happy photos outnumber the rest: my stepdaughter wearing one of my dresses, and my stepson wearing a shirt he inherited from my grandfather; Robert and I looking startled that these children, who were so small, are almost adults, and here we still are, together.

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Gavin looked startled.

Sarah Tatro looked startled.

Carmona looked startled.

Schreiber looked startled.

They look startled themselves.

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