startlingly
Example Sentences
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The star returned to the spotlight last year with her fifth album West End Girl - a startlingly honest account of the breakdown of her marriage to actor David Harbour.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
“Wolf Moon” is concise and tightly coiled, yet it stretches across a startlingly long period of time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
“It’s kind of a startlingly bad picture where virtually all major western watersheds are doing very poorly,” Swain said in a livestreamed discussion of the western snow outlook.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2026
A spritz of lemon or lime and a sprinkle of salt is often enough — startlingly so — to make them feel alive rather than virtuous.
From Salon ● Jan. 13, 2026
In his madrigals, Monteverdi dips in and out of all kinds of chords, many of them startlingly unrelated, in order to create ear-catching effects.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
