How to Use startling in a Sentence
startling
adjective
- It is a city of startling contrasts.
- Startling new evidence came to light during the trial.
- He made a startling discovery.
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The amount of trash in June Lake was startling, West said.
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Gregory Thomas,
San Francisco Chronicle,
20 Oct. 2022
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But what was more startling was the field in the document to the right of her name.
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John Temple,
The Atlantic,
24 Sep. 2022
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The scope of the pollution has turned out to be startling.
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Rosanna Xiastaff Writer,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Aug. 2022
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The stats are startling to Chen, who is bracing for a swell of need there.
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Parija Kavilanz,
CNN,
25 Oct. 2023
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But things took a startling turn during one of the rehearsals for the show.
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Tim Chan,
Rolling Stone,
28 Aug. 2022
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In more recent years, the shift has been even more startling.
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Liam Dillonstaff Writer,
Los Angeles Times,
31 May 2022
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The film remains chaotic and startling through the end.
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Eisa Nefertari Ulen,
The Hollywood Reporter,
18 Apr. 2024
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A lot of things have happened in my life that are so startling.
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Gary Graff,
Billboard,
26 Sep. 2024
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The ratings for Clark games vs. non-Clark games have been startling.
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Alex Sherman,
CNBC,
3 Oct. 2024
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Neither team scored the rest of the half, and some of the numbers through two quarters were startling.
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Jeff Potrykus,
Journal Sentinel,
1 Oct. 2022
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The mids and highs have a crisp clarity that can be startling at times.
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Gieson Cacho,
The Mercury News,
18 Nov. 2024
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The trick is to wear colors startling enough that on a gray day you won’t be mistaken for part of the hedge.
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Ellen Hawley,
WSJ,
10 Nov. 2023
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Its pace of improvement over just the past year has been startling.
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Dev Patnaik,
Forbes,
10 Dec. 2023
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But the startling thing is the 12-month gain of that index through May was only 1.2 percent.
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Jeff Sommer,
New York Times,
14 July 2023
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The longevity of old songs is an even greater mystery when what every era’s fans want is the fresh, the startling, the new.
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David Kirby,
WSJ,
9 Sep. 2022
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Perhaps the most startling growth in the use of livestreaming took place in the retail sector.
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Forbes,
10 Dec. 2021
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As the dust settles, the scale of destruction is startling.
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Jeremy Diamond,
CNN,
7 July 2024
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But the carnage Putin has already brought in Ukraine is startling.
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ABC News,
25 Sep. 2022
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Still, the most startling epiphanies arrived to her through food.
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Mayukh Sen,
The Atlantic,
16 Nov. 2021
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The most startling creature is the coconut crab, which grows to the size of a cat and may drop suddenly from trees.
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Cullen Murphy,
The Atlantic,
15 June 2022
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The speed is somewhat startling, but so, too, was the uptick in inflation last year.
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Tribune News Service,
oregonlive,
21 Jan. 2022
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The planned 17-minute display became a startling, fiery fusillade of less than a minute.
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Michael Smolens,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 July 2023
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But most startling was the opening of a block square park between Minna and Natoma.
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Carl Nolte,
San Francisco Chronicle,
5 Mar. 2022
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But to have something happen so close to home was startling.
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Taylor Hartz,
courant.com,
28 Mar. 2022
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All of a sudden, Jody approaches the car and knocks on the window, startling Colt.
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Hannah Dailey,
Billboard,
3 May 2024
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The startling move comes weeks before Hunter was set to receive his punishment after his trial conviction in a gun case and guilty plea on tax charges.
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Theresa Braine,
New York Daily News,
2 Dec. 2024
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The startling advance of Syria’s opposition in a week is the unintended consequence of two other conflicts, one near and one far.
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Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN,
7 Dec. 2024
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