Sentence examples for you were startled from inspiring English sources

When was the last time you were startled from sleep in the middle of the night by a telephone call from a former Supreme Court justice?

You were struck by the singular physical grace with which he negotiated his way through any encounter; you were regaled by stories of trips involving huge determination and ingenuity, once strapping his electric buggy to a taxi roof in Eritrea; you were startled by his curiosity about your own projects.

You know what's coming, but you're startled anyway, and then you do it again.

You're startled, but then when you calm down and look at the technical points of his action, like the position of his feet, it is quite sound".

But if you're startled when you finally learn the secret of the title, it isn't because this information comes as a surprise but because, by the time you get to page 543, you're so engrossed in just about everything but the murder that you no longer care who dunnit.

When you read the letters of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop today, you are startled to realize that, in their day, Lowell was a god and Bishop still very much an aspirant, a judgment that has been turned almost on its head now.

"It's just temporarily blinding, and you're startled.

You are startled by the bluntness of his physical deterioration.

You are startled into submission and shocked by the fact of how vulnerable and temporary everything is.

And you're startled to realize that this makes-it-all-look-easy song-and-dance man is also a seriously talented actor.

And of course, if you're startled by a fire engine screeching by the window, the number's likely to take a sharp drop.