Sentence examples for she startled from inspiring English sources

The phrase "she startled" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe when someone has been suddenly, and unexpectedly, surprised. For example, "She startled when she heard the loud bang coming from the kitchen".

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SHE startled me the other day, walking down Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills: a middle-aged beauty with long, blown-out hair in a shade somewhere between butter and margarine, her body narrow and svelte but large-breasted.

"But one morning she woke me up and, because she startled me, I answered.

She startled awake twice because, in her dream, the woven basket, full of coins, was sliding off her lap.

She startled easily if someone spoke too loudly or the telephone rang.

"What if I say that's superstition?" Addressing Matthews now, she startled the cat.

In 1968 she startled her admirers by creating her first representational work, a fountain in Ghirardelli Square on San Francisco's waterfront.

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Unless she startles it.

Sometimes, she startles with common sense.

Later, as I focus the camera to shoot her portrait, she startles slightly, distracted.

She is startled: she has never heard a word about it.

She was startled when she said she saw a six-inch smear of blood on the dog's leash.

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