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Meanings of startling event in English
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Usage of startling event in English
1
This was a startling event; it was a proceeding utterly without precedent.
2
He paces up and down, reflecting upon the startling event of the evening.
3
A woman's rights convention in the 1840s was a startling event.
4
We talked and talked; came back to the startling event.
5
To them, such a flagitious betrayal of trust was a new and startling event.
6
When she was twenty-five years old the first startling event of her life took place.
7
This startling event-andwhat it might portend-gave pause to thoughtful men of all parties.
8
They pass on, talking of the night's startling event.
9
At this period, every day, nay, almost every hour, seemed to bring its startling event.
10
The assassination of the Empress of Austria at Geneva was the startling event of that summer.
11
Then the most startling event of all occurred.
12
This startling event was the result of the failure of Napoleon's forces to reconquer San Domingo.
13
When the battleship Maine was sunk in Havana Harbor, his reaction to that startling event was instantaneous.
14
The startling event then transpiring threatened the peace, if not the very existence, of the Parkville Liberal Institute.
15
News of the startling event spread rapidly and half a dozen neighbors gathered to see the bear weighed.
16
Paris, that city of sensations, was shaken to its centre by tidings of a new and startling event.
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Startling event across language varieties
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