Startling is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for STARTLING in dictionary:

VERB:
• cause to feel sudden shock or alarm
NOUN:
• the act of startling
ADJECTIVE:
• very surprising
• causing surprise or fear
• so remarkably different or sudden as to cause momentary shock or alarm
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to frighten or surprise suddenly

Words related to STARTLING

startle7 startled9 startles8 startlingly15 startlings11

Words that contain STARTLING

startlings11 startlingly15 unstartling12 unstartlingly17

How to use STARTLING in a sentence

• It was startling enough to scare the soul out of a man, but I held fast and was just about to step forward, when my collar was twisted tight from behind.
• It had roused him to hope, and turned off his feelings from the startling news he had just heard.
• With a suddenness that was startling, it burst open, and they faced freedom.
• Towards sunset the likeness was startling, and the nose, chin, and mouth as delicately formed as if chiselled by the tools of a sculptor.
• Bending over her, he saw her white, heart-shaped face, and its red mouth as startling as a June rose out here in the snow.
• Among the bewildering variety of ancient ornaments and implements in the Egyptian Gallery of the Louvre, I saw an object of startling interest.
• The surface crust which breaks with a snap and sinks with a snap, startling men and animals.
• As she went along, new and more startling objects of distress attracted her notice.
• A startling yell from Fred caused me to spring to my feet, and as I did so, a long, dark object flashed before my eyes, and narrowly missed my head.
• But every word sent forth came back with a startling clearness from the mysterious depths of the brooding forest.
• As soon as the startling news was heard active measures were taken to remove the stores.
• This is a startling thought, and comes to one over and over again.
• He was the officer in command of the patrol of hussars, and brought startling news.
• The newspapers, always hungry for startling news, had published articles about it.
• They really would have hid their faces, and looked at the bonnet afterwards, but for the startling sight that met the gaze of the congregation.
• The former was bold, popular, startling, and not without a show of learning.
• He had, in fact, taken an impression of mental power as startling as a sudden blow in the face.
• The general obscurity, however, served to throw into prominent and startling relief the death-bed and its occupant.
• He proceeded, accordingly, in his own imperious way, to make some startling changes.
• It is rather startling to recollect that Cavour might have been among the survivors.
• A startling presentation of a wonderful occult truth.
• Many and startling were the visions that filled her sleeping hours that night but each one of them served but to impress upon her the same thing.
• The bloom is on the dog and the paws are startling.
• Now with all due deference to the talented authority who promulgated this startling announcement, we beg to differ with him on the subject.
• Still, that was just as startling proof of their amazing whatever-it-was! Seats were not taken in the bower.
• We note the startling and strange contrast which the text suggests.
• His portrait is flung on the canvas with the same startling abruptness with which Elijah is introduced.

Similar words containing STARTL without suffix ing

startle7 startly10 startled9 startler8 startles8 startlers9 startlish12 startlier9 startlings11 startliest10 startlement13 startlingly15 unstartling12 startlements14 unstartlingly17

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