A sentence for the word startle. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use startle in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for startle.
- There was nothing in that book to startle him or make him think. (8)
- It gave her, too, another chance to startle out of him the reason of the feud. (8)
- And they had not stolen, they had bought the powder, only intending to startle. (10)
- Gently, so as not to startle her, he raised her hand a little, bent, and kissed it. (8)
- He did not want to startle her; yet must contrive that she had no chance to evade him by flight. (8)
- They talked marvellously alike, so as to startle Count Kollin: and supposing he was not Alvan, it would be a bitter disappointment. (10)
- Her unfinished sketch recalled him after he had gone: he lived in it, to startle her again, and bid her heart gallop and her cheeks burn. (10)
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Definition of startle:
- startle, stärt’l, v.i. to start or move suddenly: to feel sudden alarm. | v.t. to excite suddenly: to shock: to frighten. | n. sudden alarm or surprise. | n. start’ler. | adj. start’ling, such as to strike with astonishment or alarm. | adv. start’lingly. | adj. start’lish, apt to start. (0)
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