The startling events within the house passed momentarily from his mind.

She is easily frightened, and even mildly startling events can send her into hiding.

The startling events of the final 2:12 of the game had shaken him up.

Every man realized that the laugh would be the precursor of some more startling event.

An excited utterance does not have to be made at the same time of the startling event.

Unlike an excited utterance, it need not be made in response to a startling event.

That startling event forced him to finally take account of his finances.

It was as if even the weather had been affected by the startling events of the night before.

Short of some startling event, the prospects are that foreign policy won't be a significant issue in the campaign.

Like most of the startling events in life, I stumbled into it quite by chance.