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How to use startlingly in a sentence

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Around almost every corner is a picture-postcard view of the Manhattan skyline, startlingly close.
Playing it at my desk this afternoon, it was so startlingly apt that I nearly lost it and blubbed in the middle of the office.
Suddenly we come across a huge expanse of startlingly blue water mirroring vermilion rocks and towering pinnacles.
The other two, one of whom is startlingly pretty, launch into an genial explanation of why I should give them some money.
He was teasing in his answers to some questions, at times startlingly blunt in response to others.
It seemed startlingly appropriate, as I had developed pyromania by then as an outlet.
When a cancer-stricken doctor is brought in to investigate, the plot begins to spirals towards its startlingly inventive climax.
Also, they all make a startlingly fine Pinot Noir, a wine that often features a combination of California racy fruit with Burgundian earth tones.
He's a startlingly prolific songwriter, capable of churning out three albums a year.
Her voice is a startlingly versatile instrument prone to a metallic nasality.
The opening idea of the last movement sounds startlingly like a conflation of the two major allegros from the ballet suite.
On this day, the first hepatica buds were poking through the leaf mat, and some were opening into startlingly light-blue flowers.
The uniformity in the appearance and bearing of the assembled delegates is startlingly troubling.
Johann Kattus, Alte Reserve, Brut is a startlingly dry Viennese sparkling wine with a very fine persistent mousse.
The sound that the small bones in your foot make when they break are not so much a crunch as a crack, startlingly loud.
The figures are always startlingly lifelike, yet never precisely to scale and always altered in some way.
The hitherto silent island of Naxos has startlingly become populated with fauns and maenads and sileni and old Silenus himself swaying inebriate on his donkey.
Breeders of short-haired blues have never been many in number, nor has there ever appeared any startlingly good specimen in the show pen.
But they remain startlingly original, if only fitfully funny.
Hemphill is actually surprisingly handsome, with startlingly blue eyes and an odd portmanteau accent that belies his formative years in Canada after being born in Glasgow.
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They are possibly not startlingly brilliant, and he is perfectly easy to deceive.
He had watched a program just last month, and it had been startlingly lifelike.
It was startlingly white, and in a strange, elfish kind of way, beautiful.
The soliloquy, too, is startlingly characteristic of Hamlet.
Now the rattle of a key in the hall-door was startlingly audible.
The comparison, if not startlingly original, was fairly just.
Then it seemed to her startlingly inadequate even as an undergarment.
It is a heavy tome of over seven hundred pages, painfully careful and accurate, and startlingly original.
These were very witty, and, for a young woman who six months before had been painting the most artless madonnas, startlingly cynical.
Next it was a wordless clamour startlingly close, and loud enough to be distinct if each word had not killed the other.
The Mediterranean at Tarragona was brilliantly, startlingly blue.
Only the silence of the boat was at intervals startlingly pierced by one of his peculiar whispers, now harsh with command, now soft with entreaty.
The frescoes on the walls were startlingly suited to the place.
But this well set-up fisher-youth did not wriggle, looked at him with eyes steady, clear, and unflinching, and spoke in a tone distinctly, even startlingly, respectful.
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