Sentence examples for startling everyone from inspiring English sources

There must be some other way of letting the boy know his ride has arrived without startling everyone within earshot.

Our search of the cedar boughs turned up no sign of the creatures, but as we stopped at a scenic overlook to take pictures, a brown Barbary ape leaped through the van's open door, startling everyone.

Little Red Riding Hood discovers that the Big Bad Wolf has disguised himself as Granny, just as the axe-wielding woodsman bursts through the window, startling everyone.

At 8pm, a large swimming beast slammed our canoe into the dock startling everyone--neighbors included--awake.

The performance was organic, fitful, startling, not everyone's idea of Italianate style, but Verdian in the deepest dramatic sense.

In the end, she painted him just like the rest of them, but his black side was darker, and his white side more startling, than everyone else's.

So I figured it's fine for me to divulge his startling (to everyone but me) admission.

The Titans' 0-3 start is startling to nearly everyone.

Out of the church we headed to startling applause, then everyone mounted the double-deckers and pedal cabs and headed for the Angel waving hats.

It was one of those crazy periods when the Liberal/SDP Alliance had just won a startling byelection and everyone thought it was going to form the next government.

She makes no secret of anything, really, and for that reason, perhaps, it is somehow less startling when she "puts everyone else's business in the street," as she put it.