Sentence examples for startled them from inspiring English sources

What they found in Camborne, Pool and Redruth startled them Another startling fact: central government spending on arts and culture in the capital amounted to £69 per resident in 2012-13, compared with £4.60 per person elsewhere in England.

Sudden gunfire startled them.

Then, car headlights startled them.

What they found startled them.

This startled them as N.Y.C. was 150 miles away.

Patterson watched them, rapt, until something startled them and they ran off.

Every ring of the telephone startles them.

This was intended to startle them.

I ask for a cup, which startles them, and sip.

The ringing of a cell phone startles them out of their immobility.

But the memories sometimes startle them, like the tingling in the stump of an amputee.