Example Sentences

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The change to corporate culture, when it comes, will be startling.

From Forbes • Jun. 27, 2013

Even if Google is way off--and I don't believe it is--the improvement in safety will be startling.

From The Guardian • Jan. 28, 2013

If all a man feels, sees, and hears be noted, the information gathered, coming from a stranger, will be startling to people who belong to his circle of friends.

From Inferences from Haunted Houses and Haunted Men by Harris, John William

In a reasonable time I will have a statement to make that will be startling in the extreme.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 by Bates, Harry

To most readers these will be startling propositions; but they are fully admitted by the highest authorities.

From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Spencer, Herbert