Sentence examples for startling from inspiring English sources

The results were startling.

But two months after the anniversary of the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh, when most of those injured and bereaved by the disaster are still waiting for compensation – though Primark, unlike other retailers who have admitted to a presence in the factory, has contributed to the compensation fund – the secret message hidden inside a piece of women's clothing is a startling image.

"From Roman penknives to Canalettos, from enamelled reliquaries to model boats, we will be looking for connections, testing history, unearthing startling facts and putting real experts on the spot.

Australia is notorious in Britain for its startling variety of causes of death, thanks to its violent wildlife and the dangerous heat of its empty desert roads.

The groundbreaking working class films of the Sixties such as Saturday Night, Sunday Morning, A Kind of Loving, Room at the Top were startling in their depiction of social inequities, but these were not films to savour for their cinematic verve.

Whatever, the startling statistic of 289 tackles made by Wales – Ireland made 104 – do not tell of a game played in the air, but of the ball being carried by, well, 289 Irish runners.

It was a startling ascent up the acting tree, and cemented her place on the A-list of performing talent.

Once ashore, he tools up with a startling amount of weaponry.

Prejudice and bigotry against gay people have reached "startling" levels in Northern Ireland, equality campaigners have warned.

As the mastermind behind some of the startling byelection wins that would become a Liberal trademark, the relative low profile of Lord Rennard in the public eye belies his influence on British politics stretching across three decades.

One of his most startling claims was that more jobs had been created in "the great county of Yorkshire" than in France.