Sentence examples for startle into from inspiring English sources

Sometimes a single performance, and the effect it produces on the others in the cast, can startle into you a new awareness of a classic.

The audience seemed startled into applause.

When a horse boggles, he is startled into immobility.

She was startled into alertness — at first not sure where she was.

At some point he whispered, "Run," and I startled into movement.

The night I discovered them touching, I was startled into staring.

The number of times an actor is startled into a scream can't be counted on two hands.

Today, the influence of Galvani's work is evident even in our lexicon, the way we use the word "galvanize," to mean startled into sudden activity.

Kingfishers often bob their heads and the forepart of their bodies when nervous or mildly alarmed; when startled into flight, some give sharp calls.

(Though even when Marie is startled into something resembling reflection in the later scenes, it's in conversation with an imaginary sheep, played by the ever-game David Greenspan).

Or him lifting up those hoops of Victorian imprisonment to go under her dress and Hunter's hitherto blank face startled into expression.