startlingly

Example Sentences

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On its release, BBC music correspondent Mark Savage described West End Girl as "a savage and startlingly detailed portrait of a marriage being torn apart".

From BBC • Mar. 20, 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

It was a worrying sign after what had been a startlingly strong end to 2025 for both the healthcare sector at large, and biotech and drug stocks in particular.

From Barron's • Jan. 5, 2026

She smiled, and her manner instead of being still and unbending as it usually was became startlingly familiar, fawning even.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier