The cry startled her from the murky pit that had claimed her since Hobart's departure.

Orla's cry startled Alfred, shocked him out of his reverie.

A strangled cry from the bed startled me.

The cry had startled the guard, brought an instant reflex action of alert readiness.

The cry of a baby startles a passerby.

Toward high sun a low, moaning cry startled her to wakefulness.

A cry in the unhuman uproar startled me.

A screeching cry startled him from his horrified reverie.

Dudley Ward picked up a log, and was about to place it on the fire, when a cry from Chan startled him.

His cry of victory startled q, who evidently forgot about canceling gravity.