Sentence examples for startling you from inspiring English sources

"It is startling you have so many people in need, but for one reason or another they're dropping out," Schlegelmilch says.

Dasaolu's time of 9.91sec in the second semi-final was so startling you wondered if the mind was being deceived by heatstroke.

Manhood for Amateurs is generous and witty, tender and tempestuous, startling you with the arcade-game fire-power of a precision mind free-ranging over a universe he knows so well: the "baseless optimism" of being a man.

He runs hard, startling you again with his speed and strength, and rounds first base at full speed, leaning sideways like a racing car, then pulls up in a shower of dirt and scrambles back to the bag.

The harried homemaker wearing her house slippers bumps into you just then, squeezing in between your cart and the hummus, startling you back to reality.

Or you get to the front of the line at your favorite local café and the barista asks, "What would you like to order?" Or a siren wails down the street whose corner you've been occupying, startling you.

As you stare at a baguette wrapped in cellophane and contemplate your romantic failures, you come to a startling realization: you are Pret A Manger!

So, that same person offering you, pledging to you to raise $1 million might have been startling to you in August of 1992.

The results may be startling for you, the student may pour his/her heart out to you, even for hours, with questions.

After you first started talking about extra-terrestrials, and made some startling predictions, you were openly mocked in the street.

After three-plus hours in Mr. Sheen's always alert and startling company, you feel as if his Hamlet is hellbent on staring you down before the lights on his tragic, foreshortened life go out forever.