How to use "startled" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "startled" in popular movie and book plots

  • She is startled to find that the masks feel warm and like human skin, not rubber or plastic.  - The Haunted Mask
  • Peter then sends an object crashing to the floor while trying to catch Moushie, and the startled thief grabs a typewriter and flees.  - The Diary of Anne Frank (1959 film)
  • As he lies dying under the abbey's rubble, Zerchi is startled to encounter Mrs Grales/Rachel, a bicephalous tomato peddler and mutant.  - A Canticle for Leibowitz
  • He is startled when an electronic howling noise booms out across Lake Taupo from the far side.  - The Quiet Earth
  • , is startled to find Wimsey, Parker, and Freddy Arbuthnot on the street after midnight, all drunk as lords.  - Clouds of Witness
  • Finally, they are startled to find someone who does move: "Jeremy Wickwire", the caretaker of this place.  - Elegy (The Twilight Zone)
  • Striking up the same conversation they had begun the previous day, D— was startled by a gunshot in the street.  - The Purloined Letter
  • She's startled by a sailor on his way back to San Diego from leave.  - The Hitch-Hiker (The Twilight Zone)
  • Martin walks to the park where he is startled to see himself as a young boy.  - Walking Distance
  • Later on, Ed awakens, startled by a nightmare in which a bloated human hand rises from the lake.  - Deliverance
  • The brothers are killed when their driver, startled by the array of syringes in Antony's face, crashes the ambulance.  - Hudson Hawk
  • The Mongol slave tells her countryman of the prophecy, but before he can touch the rose-tree, Ahmed's startled horse tosses its rider into it.  - The Thief of Bagdad (1924 film)
  • When Tom is startled by a stuffed bear, he shoots it, alerting the police, who kill gang member Larry Dalton.  - The Public Enemy
  • Along the way, she leaves a banknote of enormous denomination with a startled "starving artist".  - The Ladykillers
  • Morbius, asleep in the Krell lab, is startled awake by screams from Altaira; at the same instant, the roaring creature vanishes.  - Forbidden Planet
  • At night Neville is startled awake and finds Ruth fully clothed at the front door of the house.  - I Am Legend (novel)

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