Sentence examples for startle him from inspiring English sources

The idea seemed to startle him.

"He's there," I said calmly, as though any excitement in my voice might startle him away.

"In what way, would you say?" (shifting away a bit, but not wanting to startle him).

The reappearance of the vanished associate's stranded beauty will likely startle him.

But the slam of a bathroom door, she said, seemed to startle him awake.

Not wanting to startle him, I eased myself nearer to his seat until I was almost on top of him.

But three weeks ago the monkey, a rhesus macaque, jumped on Mrs. Fowler's back, startling her, which in turn startled him.

What he found startled him.

Something has startled him awake.

The freezing air startled him.

A great roll of thunder startled him.