Sentence examples for were startling for from inspiring English sources

But once the Wednesday storm hit, the numbers were startling for one day: the Weather Service said that by 10 p.m., 12.5 inches had fallen in Ridgewood, N.J.; 10 inches in Paramus, N.J.; and 13.1 inches in South Valley Stream, on Long Island.

First, the price tags are startling: for-profit educators normally expect to pay between 10 and 13 times earnings for a school.

It's startling, for anyone who has seen Submarine, how quickly Roberts has grown up.

The turnaround in Lodz has been startling for a municipality whose population was still declining as recently as three years ago.

The tales are startling for their grotesque humor, for the light they shed on the draggled hinterland between the civilized and the monstrous.

Their enthusiasm was startling, for Mr. Cuomo's predecessors have found few adversaries as imposing as hospitals during Albany's budget season.

Even so, it was startling for the Yankees to pile up nine runs off a pitcher with such a sterling résumé.

He seemed, to me at least—and it is startling for me even to utter the thought to be almost normal.

A single blade, gently drooping under its own weight, it is startling for being the opposite of every icon-forging "place-making" tendency that such a design contest usually encourages.

One Saturday each month, the city shuts down and every homeowner or business owner is responsible for cleaning his property; the results are startling, for a few hours, anyway.

The attack in the small city of Zaranj was startling for the planning on the part of the insurgents, who carried out considerable damage despite being largely thwarted by the police.