Sentence examples for mildly startled from inspiring English sources
Ms. Helgenberger looked mildly startled.
I went to see Anthony Page's Design for Living the other day – mildly startled to discover that it contained two intervals and ran for something over three hours.
Her finest hour, though, was the invention of artificially perfumed rubber roses, a bouquet of which was presented to a mildly startled Queen Mary.
Just as "Dubya" once projected his own sense of righteous certainty onto a mildly startled world, Abbott this week has presented himself as a politician infatuated with his own sense of what's right.
Today, we join the latest loop of baseball's steroids roller coaster: the one where we refuse to be surprised by anything and yet still find ourselves mildly startled to have David Ortiz's name thrown into the steroids user bin, where a few television commentators contend that no one cares about steroids stories while in their fourth hour of talking about a steroids story.
The American Catherine Opie, who is a lesbian, mildly startles with a photograph of her beefy, tattooed self suckling her baby boy.
Kingfishers often bob their heads and the forepart of their bodies when nervous or mildly alarmed; when startled into flight, some give sharp calls.
Of the seven of us, six ranged from mildly uncoordinated to loafish and easily startled.
To say that I was startled would be putting it mildly; it was simply astonishing news.
