Sentence examples for startled voice from inspiring English sources

"How did you know?" the startled voice on the other end asked.

"Did you happen to see a man carrying a bouquet of flowers?" she might have asked in a startled voice, and you would have looked away from her bare, pale legs, pointed upwind, and told her, "He went that way".

I was zoning out in a deck chair when I heard my husband's startled voice.

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

When I finally spoke, the bony snap in my voice startled us both.

"I am with my father and my brother," Walter says, so startled that his voice has a youthful yelp in it.

Startled by his voice, I tried to get off the motorcycle, but my chafed thighs and battered stump of a foot failed to clear the seat.

They did not hear the agent approaching or perhaps he had been there all along and they were startled by his voice just behind them.

It was early evening, getting dark, and while I stood on the Old Campus, looking up at the window of my freshman room, ruminating on ancient events there with my roommates Jim, Karl Muller and Bob Leuze, a voice startled me from behind with, "Hey, you Dick Cavett?" I couldn't make him out very clearly in the failing light, and for whatever reason I chose to deny it.

Then, coming from not far down the canal, a voice startled me.

The level of the officer's voice startled me as I was lifting my gear.