Sentence examples for startle awake from inspiring English sources

I wonder if that is to blame, the way he'd startle awake.

As for me, I often startle awake only to find I'm sitting at the computer with the cursor hovering over "purchase" on a one-way ticket to Ulaanbaatar.

At least once a night on shipboard you startle awake as a particularly huge floating log catches the boat bow-on, shivering her steel hull.

He pokes me hard and I startle awake with typical nightsweat irritation before I am able to slap him back.

White noise works to block out normal everyday environmental noises that could cause a person of any age to startle awake or keep them awake in the middle of the night where solid and consistent sleep is needed the most".

He startles awake.

(Paladino looked up, startled awake, and talked about something else).

In the middle of the night, the writer startled awake.

The New Yorker, April 29 , 1972P. 46 He startles awake.

He startles awake, his sheets drenched in sweat.

It says that "to be bored is to be on the verge of being startled awake".