Sentence examples for startled on from inspiring English sources

While I quickly became accustomed to Mr Schecter's accented English, his dark, mottled skin, and his curious shuffling gait, which pitched him forward even as he remained upright, he would often be startled on seeing me in the mornings or finding me in the kitchen at night.

"We were startled on one occasion.

Comprehensively prepped, I am still a little startled on first meeting him.

I was startled, on the first day, when we were taken to the prop department and a plastercast was made of my bum.

By Andy Borowitz April 2, 2018 AKRON, OHIO (The Borowitz Report) — Viewers of the Sinclair station in Akron were startled on Monday when a longtime news anchor, Carol Foyler, inexplicably began reading the evening news report in Russian.

If you are now deciding to give the book a miss, on no account do so - it is entertaining, intriguing, absorbing and so expansive that I was startled, on finishing, to note its brevity".

Resolved on leaving the West Bank through the infamous Checkpoint 300, I startle on arrival at the bright sun setting through barbed wire and sentry points.

He was startled to be rounded on in his early adulthood by the proletarian poet Jesse Tor, who denounced him as "irredeemably bourgeois".

It was not the first time the two had talked across the well of the courtroom as startled lawyers on both sides looked on helplessly.

Rybolovlev was startled to encounter someone on the other end of one of his art transactions.

I was so isolated.' She was amazed to get an audition and even more startled to be taken on.