Sentence examples for startled to read from inspiring English sources

I was startled to read, in an article about Rinder by Peter Plagens in Newsweek, that the two artists who most moved me almost didn't make the cut.

Yet, as a very infrequent but contented user of both Lunesta and Ambien myself, I was startled to read efficacy trials for those drugs submitted to the F.D.A.

Starting up my comically enormous, seven-seater Cadillac SRX the other day, I was startled to read the following electronic message on the dashboard: "Theft Attempted".

After a small kerfuffle in The Archers, I remember Brian Aldridge opened his script and was startled to read: "Brian falls down in an epileptic fit".

A friend of Betsy Gotbaum, the public advocate, was startled to read the other day about Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's penchant for flying helicopters.

I was startled to read that, in 1981, former President Richard Nixon contributed a thousand dollars "in memory of Edith Head, an Oscar-winning costume designer and a friend of his wife, Patricia".

Having registered that line only in passing, I was startled to learn, while reading Gore Vidal's fictional account of Burr's life, that the preacher in question is none other than Jonathan Edwards perhaps the most important religious leader in early America, and the one who gave us "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God".

I was startled to learn that she'd read this statement out loud in court to her assailant — that she hadn't just been able to slip it under the judge's door in the middle of the night and leave it at that.

"She was startled, to say the least".

In first grade, I remember looking up from the book I was reading, startled to find that the entire class was lined up to go out to recess and were exasperatedly calling my name to get my attention to put my book down and join them.

When he asked the man what he was reading, they were both startled to realize that it was Tokayer's book about Jewish humor, with a picture of Tokayer on the cover.