Sentence examples for rather startled from inspiring English sources
I was rather startled by the media interest.
"We were rather startled that they admitted they didn't have any," Ms. Morella said.
That's just a conjecture based on the rather startled picture of him from earlier.
One of the latter rather startled the newcomer, it being from an undertaking establishment.
Matters dropped leaflets as she flew, finally returning to earth near Croydon, helped "by a friendly though rather startled farmer".
Rather, investigators were startled by the degree to which hanging out at the club had become part of the fabric of life within the precinct.
Australia's towering left-arm new-ball uber-athletes clearly take some adjusting to when the same line and length from a human-scale county seamer would probably draw a composed forward prod rather than a startled edge.
A perfectly tanned-and-toned young man and woman in knee pads and not much else skate smoothly and swiftly by, she carrying under her arm an expertly coiffed, rather startled-looking Pekinese dog.
This caller was also startled to hear Rather's voice, and Rather again had to explain who he was: "It's Dan Rather".
Rajah Banerjee, of the Makaibari estate, only decided to become a tea-planter after, or rather while, falling from a startled horse while hunting: "In the split second that I fell, I perceived a brilliant band of white light, connecting me to the trees in the forests around me... the woods sang out melancholically in an incredible concerto, 'Save us!
