Sentence examples for startled to be from inspiring English sources

She said, 'Yeah, I like to answer the phone.' " Both were startled to be voice-to-voice with another unknown, unseen human being.

Oliver and General Alexander seemed equally startled to be facing each other.

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

On May 20th, O'Keefe travelled to Abercrombie's headquarters in New Albany, Ohio, where he was startled to be greeted by executives wearing flip-flops and riding Razor scooters.

Thinking they must have come to the wrong place, Mr Norris opened his front door, and was startled to be shoved against a wall and frisked for weapons.

He arrives, a little startled to be the only boy, but gamely sits down and flirts, mostly by tossing his long hair.

Several Iraqi victims said they were startled to have been contacted by the Americans.

Queensberry's contemporaries would be startled to find he is worthy of a biography – let alone one published by a university press.

Shapiro was startled to learn who was tuning in to a demeaning caricature of courtship.

At 65, Dr. Love was startled to learn she was considered among the "elderly" patients for this type of leukemia.

He had by then returned home, having given up his job at the radio station, and was startled to learn he was a cult hero in Britain.