startling
Example Sentences
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Frank showed him the kitchen, the boot room, the larder stocked with herbs and jars of preserves and beans and a startling number of tins of anchovies.
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Today, Wall Street uses the term “debasement trade” to describe the startling run-up of gold’s price.
From Barron's
Ukraine’s impressive, even startling, rates of drone construction, deployment, and iteration could give the right European investors a key edge there, too.
From Barron's
Not I’m sure this is a little startling.
From Literature
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They say one way to grab someone’s attention is with a startling piece of data, so get this: Four women were having espresso martinis in San Francisco this past fall.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.