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.
• The amount of trash in June Lake was startling, West said.
  — Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Oct. 2022
• But what was more startling was the field in the document to the right of her name.
  — John Temple, The Atlantic, 24 Sep. 2022
• The scope of the pollution has turned out to be startling.
  — Rosanna Xiastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2022
• The stats are startling to Chen, who is bracing for a swell of need there.
  — Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 25 Oct. 2023
• But things took a startling turn during one of the rehearsals for the show.
  — Tim Chan, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2022
• In more recent years, the shift has been even more startling.
  — Liam Dillonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2022
• The film remains chaotic and startling through the end.
  — Eisa Nefertari Ulen, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Apr. 2024
• A lot of things have happened in my life that are so startling.
  — Gary Graff, Billboard, 26 Sep. 2024
• The ratings for Clark games vs. non-Clark games have been startling.
  — Alex Sherman, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2024
• Neither team scored the rest of the half, and some of the numbers through two quarters were startling.
  — Jeff Potrykus, Journal Sentinel, 1 Oct. 2022
• The trick is to wear colors startling enough that on a gray day you won’t be mistaken for part of the hedge.
  — Ellen Hawley, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2023
• Its pace of improvement over just the past year has been startling.
  — Dev Patnaik, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2023
• But the startling thing is the 12-month gain of that index through May was only 1.2 percent.
  — Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 14 July 2023
• The longevity of old songs is an even greater mystery when what every era’s fans want is the fresh, the startling, the new.
  — David Kirby, WSJ, 9 Sep. 2022
• As the dust settles, the scale of destruction is startling.
  — Jeremy Diamond, CNN, 7 July 2024
• But the carnage Putin has already brought in Ukraine is startling.
  — ABC News, 25 Sep. 2022
• The most startling creature is the coconut crab, which grows to the size of a cat and may drop suddenly from trees.
  — Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic, 15 June 2022
• The planned 17-minute display became a startling, fiery fusillade of less than a minute.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 July 2023
• But most startling was the opening of a block square park between Minna and Natoma.
  — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Mar. 2022
• But to have something happen so close to home was startling.
  — Taylor Hartz, courant.com, 28 Mar. 2022
• All of a sudden, Jody approaches the car and knocks on the window, startling Colt.
  — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 3 May 2024
• The clamor of the crowd must have been startling, too, as well as the commotion of bats among the oaks and hickories and the brilliance of the sky.
  — Discover Magazine, 14 June 2024
• The scene, which is quite startling even by HBO standards, lit the internet on fire.
  — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 15 June 2022
• Stubbs saw something startling while searching the home.
  — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 9 Dec. 2023
• The lead levels, on the other hand, were a startling 64 to 95 times higher than the hair of someone today.
  — Ari Daniel, NPR, 27 June 2024
• Davies makes a point of talking about the light in his photographs, but what my colleagues and I find startling is the color palette: The buildings are pale buff and so is much of the landscape around them.
  — Owen Davies, Curbed, 4 Nov. 2024
• The camera closes in on the act, carefully tracking the motion of Lina’s hands in a way that is startling, but not altogether unfamiliar.
  — Claire Franken, TVLine, 25 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Dec 2024