Example Sentences

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No one is in mourning for that, not even daughter Deborah Brashers, whose recollections about childhood with a criminal father are startling.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

Some of the statistics around Mora are startling.

From BBC • Sep. 5, 2025

In the cities where Canada’s real estate mania has been the greatest, Mr. St-Arnaud’s findings are startling.

From New York Times • Feb. 24, 2024

The findings are startling, both for the clarity of the evidence and for their disturbing similarities to today’s ecological crisis.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 17, 2023

The hearer could carry these sentences away, and would ponder on them all the more, because in their literal sense they are startling and impracticable as rules of conduct.

From Pastor Pastorum by Latham, Rev. Henry