Sentence examples for slightly startled from inspiring English sources

She looked at me, slightly startled.

"Hi," the son answered, sounding slightly startled.

So even though these grown men look slightly startled at her attentions, they don't protest.

Though slightly startled by her own trajectory, Black is not remotely surprised by the SNP surge.

Redmond performed in a mac, had a slightly startled expression, spoke very slowly and deadpanned brilliantly.

Someone from a veterans' charity asks a slightly startled Alekperov directly for a grant.

He seemed startled, slightly suspicious, as if I were trying out some shady mind-reading game.

Ms. Max mostly drove fine, but was startled slightly when passing a construction site and then again when two cars momentarily boxed her in.

Look at photographs of Victorian asylums, or Todd Browning's Freaks, or John Huston's documentary about the war jitters, Let There Be Light, from which Anderson drew inspiration, and you will see the same faces staring back: startled, slightly haunted, ahistorical.

The backdrop may have shifted over the years from Lancaster Gate to Soho Square and now to Wembley's arch but the startled, slightly punch-drunk expressions of Clarke and his chief executive, Martin Glenn, to another fine mess mirrored those of their predecessors down the ages.

IN A tunnel beneath Stuttgart railway station, your correspondent was startled and slightly nauseated by a large poster advertising a sandwich filled with Fleischkäse.