Sentence examples for startled you from inspiring English sources

The more unfocused you are at the moment, the more startled you are when things happen around you.

"Apologies if we startled you during the successful intercept this afternoon - we only go supersonic over land when absolutely necessary".

His name was Serafin and he was something Balkan, and that was all I knew except that he could tell a story in a way which startled you.

Crew cut, dented brow, lower jaw jutting just slightly forward: had he been tall, his appearance might have startled you, but, as it was, he was pint-size, five feet two, maybe five-four, tops.

Jane says that Harriet was "a peculiarly affected body" who "was not easy unless she startled you with unexpected sayings" and was even "somewhat of a humbug" (quoted in Packe 1954, 325 6).

If someone startled you while you were watching a horror movie, you would probably show an "exaggerated startle response"—in other words, you'd jump out of your skin.

The results will startle you.

I'm not trying to startle you.

He could startle you with his playfulness.

"Didn't mean to startle you," he said.

Someone will talk to you and it just startles you a little bit".