Sentence examples for startling for me from inspiring English sources

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He seemed, to me at least—and it is startling for me even to utter the thought to be almost normal.

It has been startling for me to look in the corner of the room during class and see unfamiliar faces.

For a while, it was a bit startling for me and my husband to hear Della tangle with her brother and declare, in her 5-year-old voice that he "wouldn't see the light of day" unless he handed over her toy.

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It was also startling because, for me, Glenn Gould and his pianism had finally been put aside.

Thomas L. Friedman makes the startling statement, "For me, the war in Iraq was always about democracy and the necessity of helping it emerge in the Arab-Muslim world".

"One of the startling moments for me was when he enters in the second act and doesn't do anything," Mr. Greenberg said after a recent visit to the play.

First, the price tags are startling: for-profit educators normally expect to pay between 10 and 13 times earnings for a school.

("His stillness was startling to me, for stillness was the one thing that I found it impossible to associate with him," Frank Worsley wrote).

There was something timeless about him, an impression heightened by the slight and formal bow he gave as, tucking in his shirt-tail, he apologised for startling me.

For me, a startling coincidence might be walking into a crowded bar and meeting a woman around my age (35) that lost her husband to a devastating disease not long after I lost my wife; who has children around the same age as my daughter, and that shares many of my beliefs, including synchronicity.

It was blunted wit, but startling for a commercial carrier.

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