"startle" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Was that what had startled her from such a deep sleep?
- The sound of someone coming in startled the grin from her face.
- Her eyes, startled from the word in the dictionary, came to his.
- I was startled by the turn the talk had taken, especially from Ace.
- And then she turned, a quick twist of her body, startled from thought.
- Even now, in the night, she was sometimes startled from sleep by the sound of those words; that scream.
- Someone opened a door behind us and pigeons startled from the steps.
- He was startled from his thoughts by the door banging closed behind him.
- A few weeks later, the writer was startled from his sleep by a voice: it sounded like a woman talking at a dinner party.
- The abrupt statement startled the youth from his brown study.
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