startlingly
- a word derived from startling.
Example Sentences
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Both books take the reader to a startlingly large number of places, beyond the 13 colonies, in what Ms. Pearsall terms this “Russian doll of a war.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 26, 2026
“It’s kind of a startlingly bad picture where virtually all major western watersheds are doing very poorly,” Swain said in a livestreamed discussion of the western snow outlook.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2026
Achieving a large-scale phone ban is a startlingly simple process.
From BBC • Jan. 24, 2026
It was a worrying sign after what had been a startlingly strong end to 2025 for both the healthcare sector at large, and biotech and drug stocks in particular.
From Barron's • Jan. 5, 2026
The plunder had been startlingly circumstanced, but its issue had been all I could have hoped.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
