startling
IPA: stˈɑrtɫɪŋ
noun
- A startle; a sudden motion or shock.
adjective
- Likely to startle; surprising; shocking.
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Examples of "startling" in Sentences
- The amazing scenes were startling.
- The difference is pretty startling.
- The evidence is startling and graphic.
- The latest batch of confidential documents released by the Wikileaks anti-secrecy group do not contain startling information.
- Perhaps most startling is the discovery from the deciphering of the human genome that we have only between 20,000 and 25,000 genes.
- Even more startling is the fact that the reverses (tails) of these two are different; note that ‘ONE CENT’ is higher on one than on the other.
- The statistics were published as a second charity voiced concern over what it called "startling variations" in diagnosis and treatment outcomes in ovarian cancer.
- After Mount Holly Elementary School opened in August, Rock Hill school district parents with children at nearby Oakdale Elementary noticed what they call a startling change.
- They have offered NO alternatives, have lied through their teeth at every opportunity, and their hypocrisy shows in startling contrast to the Democrats doing their best to turn around our disaster of a Health Care System.
- Before Biro told me about his research into "La Bella Principessa," and what he described as startling findings, he shared with me the story of how he became the world's first authenticator of art works through fingerprinting-a story that began, curiously enough, with the very paintings I was staring at.
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