Sentence examples for would be startled from inspiring English sources

"I would be startled if, for example, a particular character became the main character," she said.

Like a Pavlovian response Albert would be startled by any white furry creature.

They would be startled if, once elected, he were to pack the executive branch with people who think unions and trial lawyers have too little power.

The Chinese leadership would be startled — for a change — if the United States were to adopt such a savvy negotiating posture.

Shoppers of an earlier generation would be startled to learn that Britons bin a third of the food they buy, and Americans not much less.

Most Americans — the governor of Alaska, who never blinks, doubtless among them — would be startled by the admonition to begin anew and ascend above our fate.

"I don't want to sound too big for our boots, but if I heard that 85percentt of people awarded Nobel Prizes had accepted, I'd be startled," said Charles Blitzer, the president of Phi Beta Kappa.

Just as we'd be startled to find a dissertation on the Presidency of Herbert Hoover in the Sunday Times, so should we be wary of spending twenty or thirty bucks on a book written, in part at least, and published three days after the events it chronicles took place.

Occasionally, we'd be startled by something unexpected — the viridian and turquoise of Lake Musters, framed by ocher reeds; the stratified rock formations of Bosque Petrificado Sarmiento, which presided over an abandoned realm of petrified wood chips deposited by a river that had carved out the valley 65 million years ago.

I'd been startled by a rat crossing my path and disappeared into some roadside shrubbery.

Later, in the cafeteria, one of my students told me that he'd been startled to see Parra, because he'd thought the poet was dead.