Sentence examples for something that startled from inspiring English sources

It was late on a Saturday in September, six months after Stanley had died and when the clippings were beginning to slow down, that I came across something that startled me.

Toward the end of his 19 years in the National Football League, offensive tackle Lomas Brown noticed something that startled even a hardened veteran.

In fact, that's my interpretation of something that startled many people: Mr. Bush's decision last month, after spending years denying that the Iraq war had anything in common with Vietnam, to suddenly embrace the parallel.

Among the data, he noticed something that startled him: Nothing supported the epicycle hypothesis.

Then he said something that startled me.

While researching a segment for the History Channel series "Secrets of Christianity," host and producer Simcha Jacobovici learned something that startled him: In 1990, Israeli archeologists excavating a 2,000-year-old 2,000-year-old 2,000-year-oldils crafted burial Romans, but kept the discavery quiet.

Historically, the Tugela (in Zulu, Thukela, meaning "something that startles") marked the southern boundary of Zululand.

These usually occur when the moderator says or asks something that startles one or both candidates, forcing them to stop flipping through the memorized file cards in their heads.

Until one day she sees something that startles her in their garden, and when she reads in the paper that "Jess" – who is really called Megan – has vanished, she decides to tip off the police.

To Dieter, it is an indication of something that startles outsiders.

HOUSTON — A small meeting of a group seeking tougher gun laws was interrupted Saturday at a suburban Dallas restaurant when the woman who helped organize it saw something outside that startled her: at least two dozen men and women in the parking lot with shotguns, hunting rifles, AR-15s and AK-47s.