Sentence examples for of being startled from inspiring English sources

It says that "to be bored is to be on the verge of being startled awake".

Everyone participates in dining hall duties; the young performers spoke of being startled to have famous musicians serving them drinks at dinner.

And Mobilio, faithful to the experience of being startled from sleep, makes the workaday world as strange as the protean dreamscape it displaces.

About 68% of the birds shown the image with the eye-mimicking spots either flew away or showed signs of being startled such as chirping a warning call, the researchers report today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. That's on par with the 57% showing the same reactions to the owl with open eyes, the team notes.

From afar, his response seems more akin to that of a man being startled awake to his house on fire than the result of a deliberately crafted articulation of a political position.

She died of a heart attack after being startled by the sound of falling roof tiles as builders replaced the roof.

Especially when you're just out of college and need to be startled by your freedom not only to reconceive yourself but to make invisible mistakes.

The next thing I remember was being startled out of this dream state by a paramedic.

Reporting from October's ISPCON, the global confab of Internet Service Providers, even Jack Rickard of Boardwatch was startled by the rate of overseas growth.

ON DECEMBER 16th 1811, the residents of New Madrid, Missouri, were startled out of their beds by a huge earthquake, which was quickly followed by a second.

That was the view yesterday of both liberal and conservative constitutional scholars after some of them were startled to learn that the Supreme Court had agreed to hear an appeal by Gov. George W. Bush.