Sentence examples for thus startled from inspiring English sources

The former senior official was thus startled when even Eikenberry seemed to have given up on fighting corruption.

There were some restaurants with some more authentic Cantonese dishes on their Chinese-language menus, but if your addiction was (like mine) for Sichuan or northern food, you were mostly out of luck.Returning to Britain last summer, I was thus startled and happy to learn about a band of newcomers who were offering authentic food, some of it in Chinatown itself.

"I was so startled".

Thus, startle magnitudes were significantly modulated by slide category.

Thus, startle-response deficits could potentially be used as an early quantitative behavioural test in preclinical trials involving both high and low-copy SOD1 G93A transgenic mice.

Thus, the startled whistle's faster tempo, not its volume, encodes the alarm call, the team reports online today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The source of the alarm noise may be a narrow outer feather on the pigeon's wing, Magrath says.

There was never really any reason to think this, but many readers will make a similar assumption and thus be startled by the active site mutant results.

The first time a stranger had the nerve to jump in my front seat, I was startled - thus, my first instinct was to open the door and kick him to the curb - like opening a cabinet and seeing a spider jump out at you (perhaps that's why I was fired?).

Thus, many a Westerner is startled when a typical Japanese, meeting you, is less keen to assert herself or tell you what she thinks, though she'll ceremoniously present you with a business card, than to find out what you think and like -- the better to arrange herself around that.

Thus, it seems that the attenuation effect is partly driven by the fact that we are not (that much) startled by sounds produced by ourselves.

Hepburn startled.