Toggle navigation
fatLingo
TOEFL Words
Academic Words
Sign In
Sentence example with the word 'startling'
startling
abrupt, awesome, daunting, disheartening, eye-opening, frightful, jarring, overwhelming, scaring, staggering, terrifying, unpredicted
Definition
adj.
so remarkably different or sudden as to cause momentary shock or alarm
Last update: June 22, 2015
2
The sound of the crackers is really
startling
.
a
n
v
d
[Please select]
0
She moved like a somnambulist, so trance-like Dean hesitated to speak for fear of
startling
her.
a
n
v
d
[Please select]
0
His physiognomy had never been more peculiar and
startling
.
a
n
v
d
[Please select]
0
Shouts from the open window
startling
evening in the quadrangle.
a
n
v
d
[Please select]
0
Sowerberry and Charlotte, were of so
startling
a nature, that Mr.
a
n
v
d
[Please select]
0
This is a
startling
word, and requires some explanation.
a
n
v
d
[Please select]
0
The result was
startling
.
a
n
v
d
[Please select]
0
At breakfast that morning Miss Oliphant made a rather
startling
announcement.
a
n
v
d
[Please select]
0
A STARTLING REVELATION.
a
n
v
d
[Please select]
0
"That is certainly a
startling
suggestion, Herbert."
a
n
v
d
[Please select]
0
And very
startling
, of course, in the silence of the night.
a
n
v
d
[Please select]
Do you have a better example in your mind? Please submit your sentence!
Submit
startles
- startling -
startlingly
USE IN A SENTENCE
RECENT
traduce
singular
coterie
jettison
oppose
abloom
meticulous
allowance
implode
boisterous
match
peevish
sinister
nymphae
analogy
...
POPULAR
abash
demography
glutton
fallacious
inveigle
urbanization
abscond
prodigy
wanderlust
affluent
insatiable
vivacious
lacerate
foreword
hypocritical
dauntless
delegation
gambol
rambunctious
eavesdrop
concatenate
gobble
plutocracy
curveting
belligerent
dyslexia
lambaste
chronicle
decorum
fearless
jaunt
valediction
abet
finicky
bough
...
TOP CONTRIBUTORS
Username
Points
hardcore
7857
babyrules
2901
Nemo
1222
nowhere
1095
Aralis
1025
alman777
413
micmac
408