"startle" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- As Max and Miriya stand on their balcony watching the SDF-1 lit up with Christmas lights, Max lifts Dana, who is initially startled, onto his shoulder.
- Once again smiling, Max puts one arm around his wife and with the other lifts little Dana, who is initially startled onto his shoulder.
- I am initially startled by another chair hitting the jellied surface of the pool and descending dreamily downwards to bounce gently onto others in the watery grave.
- Initially startled, it calms, and seems to say 'Oh, what the hell, it's only Laverne'.
- Initially startled, Meghan sings back and they duet - until Melody overhears and catches them.
- Initially startled by the move, Bathurst conceded that it was better for him to be surprised as he might have flinched if he had known what Pertwee was about to do.
- Though initially startled by Raynor's intensity, Cates insists she is capable of doing whatever it takes to get the job done.
- Initially startled by the sudden onslaught of the giant, the Reptiloids reacted adroitly, separating to catch him in a pincer movement.
- The young industrial chemist Miriam had hired through Bates's offices, and the other three workers in her makeshift research laboratory, were initially startled by her proposal, but went along with it.
- She then hears something behind her, turns around and is initially startled by someone who is not identified.
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