Sentence examples for startled for from inspiring English sources

Cex looked startled for a moment, then figured out what was going on.

When she was told that none were on hand, she must have looked startled, for the clerk offered an explanation.

The Chinese leadership would be startled — for a change — if the United States were to adopt such a savvy negotiating posture.

Louis van Gaal must have been startled, for example, by the way his United side lost their defensive shape in the final 20 minutes.

Every now and then, a group would get startled for no apparent reason and begin to run, with the panic spreading until hundreds were sprinting, and then the surge would stop as abruptly as it had begun.

Startling for the time and place, the Universal School, which he and his wife, Nazeera, started in one room of their small house, was both secular and co-educational.

"I would be startled if, for example, a particular character became the main character," she said.

He took Mr. Bustamante into his bedroom, which he said startled him for its austerity and spartan wooden bed.

My mother, on constant roasting and dirt-managing alert, managed to deposit firework debris into the fireplace; they startled us for the rest of our stay with random, loud and terrifying reports.

Which startled me for a moment.

Kate told the Leveson Inquiry that photographers would lurk near the couple's home and bang on her car as she left with the twins to obtain a startled expression for a photograph.