startling

Example Sentences

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Attractions could be startling, scary, even terrifying—whatever it took for customers to feel more like participants in blockbuster movies than observers of the filmmaking process.

From The Wall Street Journal

I was also struck by its startling intimacy.

From Los Angeles Times

You walk up to a bunch of nice people in Hoosiers sweatshirts and you make the following, startling announcement:

From The Wall Street Journal

For their experiment, the pair identified brain cells in a mouse hippocampus that activated when the animal received a startling shock.

From Los Angeles Times

A Southern California driver made a startling discovery Sunday morning when they found a live bird of prey stuck in the grille of their car.

From Los Angeles Times