Sentence examples for sort of startled from inspiring English sources
"I think the commission was frankly sort of startled at that number," he said.
Rather like an egret on a mudflat, he prowls around on his long legs with a sort of startled stillness.
And at first I was sort of startled, and I'd think: 'Well, what do you mean you don't know the lines?
It was quite intimidating and I was sort of startled by the kind of calibre of the people who had turned up".
Part of me was sort of startled by how "pro" it felt.
"Our numbers are being driven so low that when we do have something like this, it sort of startles us back to the real world".
He could not control a gasp of startled revulsion.
There was strident music, alright, but then an odd silence as the former governor sidled self-effacingly on to the stage, looked around him in a startled sort of way, and then confessed, sotto voce, that oh, by the way, he was Gary Johnson and he was running for president.
Did I startle you with my fearless truth-telling?" shit, and then issuing a sort-of-apology in which he used the word "I" 13 times and the word "sorry" once.
Tweets of grief, admiration and gratitude rose like a cloud of sparrows startled from a field; media platforms of every sort were stacked with tributes.
