Sentence examples for was so startled from inspiring English sources
I was so startled, I almost turned myself in.
He was so startled that he said nothing in reply.
They told me it was malignant, and I was so startled.
"Everybody was so startled and in wonder the whole day, we had him just talking non-stop," Ms. Goldberg recalled.
I was so startled I almost laughed, but if I had I'm sure he would have killed me. 5.
He was so startled that "I ran out into the street in a T-shirt and my underwear," he said.
You're so startled by the slap that you forget about the needle.
(Romaner is so startled that he almost runs the taxi into the car ahead of him).
On Tuesday, airport executives were so startled by Mr. Medvedev's criticism that they took the unusual step of publicly defending themselves, saying it was the government's duty, not theirs, to ensure that such safeguards were put in place.
The amateur villains of this tragicomic piece are drawn with the same wry compassion and bleak humor, even the clumsy idiot who is so startled by the beauty of Aamir's teenage daughter that he shoots her.
It is typical English insularity that we should be so startled and upset by the idea that a Russian billionaire might own the London Evening Standard, the capital's only dedicated, paid-for daily title.
