Sentence examples for to startle from inspiring English sources

Eichner likes to startle people.

Any writer knows how to startle.

The question seemed to startle Sattouf.

This was intended to startle them.

"Didn't mean to startle you," he said.

I'm not trying to startle you.

This seemed to startle the waitress and she disappeared.

Okoye then really began to startle the scouts.

In this case, take care not to startle it.

She has been known to startle them with poems about death.

I parked carefully and gently opened the car door so as not to startle them.