Fifty years later his designs still have the power to startle us.

Even seeing them for the second time, they startle and surprise me.

In some of your story-telling ballads the provincial phrases sometimes startle me.

Why, the very sight of you might startle her into her grave.

My hope that this would startle them into betraying themselves was disappointed.

I shouldn't have said anything, because all I did was startle her.

I hesitated to pull the bell: no, it would startle Mrs. Sloman.

Earthquakes startle, but the firmness of the solid earth attracts no observation.

These are visceral, powerful and haunting images that startle on first viewing.

This appeared for a moment to startle the captain and his men.

It is so still here at night, the slightest noises startle me.

What they had seen had been enough to startle the bravest person.

Science is decent, modest; does not try to startle, but to instruct.

The Fed doesn't want to startle investors, because that would be disruptive.

Her voice was not unkind, but its sinew caused me to startle.

The words seem to startle, like an electric shock, the whole audience.