Sentence examples for startled because from inspiring English sources

When an animal in the wild is startled because of sudden movement it reflexively shifts its eyes to investigate.

She told me later that she was rather startled, because when I had left earlier I had looked as if I was near death.

He said he was startled because he had been exercising on a Stairmaster four to five times a week and had experienced no symptoms, not even palpitations.

"Depositors should not be startled because the debt swap will be a good thing for the solvency of the financial system," Mr. Cavallo said.

Pohenegamook residents were startled because they had come to take for granted their right to use the filling station as if it were in their own town.

He may have felt, for the moment, like Don Giovanni when the Commendatore's statue grabbed at him — startled because he thought he had killed the guy already — or like Ahab when he saw the Whale take down Fedallah, harpoons and all.

Startling, because Merriweather is their ninth album, and doubly startling, because some of their previous albums didn't so much stray some way from the hit-making formula as occupy a different galaxy altogether.

Schirach, the Youth Leader, startles because he is like a woman.

Startling because they were secretly taken photographs, snapping the women so they could be identified if they took future action against public order.

This startled me because, in the first place, I'm actively living every day, each moment.

She startled awake twice because, in her dream, the woven basket, full of coins, was sliding off her lap.