Sentence examples for startling word from inspiring English sources

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"Disenthrall" was a startling word choice for Lincoln, who normally prided himself on the use of short words that conveyed a clear meaning.

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These startling words conclude her book about the eight years she spent chasing Balkan war criminals.

T. S. Eliot, at his most provoking, suggested that Othello was doing something in this vein in his majestic final speech—"cheering himself up," in Eliot's startling words.

T. S. Eliot, at his most provoking, suggested that Othello was doing something in this vein in his majestic final speech — "cheering himself up," in Eliot's startling words.

Perhaps most troubling is Mr. Gehry's startling words when describing it as a "theater for the car".

When it comes to pinning down the most startling possible word collision, Ellroy's acrobatic pizzazz is beyond doubt.

Today brought startling news.

This was startling news.

"Shocking," "surreal" and "startling" were words she used to describe the experience of stepping into the house, one she had been intimately familiar with since childhood, and not recognizing it.

He's an artist, with all the rough edges and startling insights that word implies.

It was here that his mastery of comic form moved from mimic to startling projection, his word trickery and running gallop of puns and self-reflecting gags nowhere more apparent than in his brilliant sports commentary for the fictional sport of Farnarkeling.

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