Startled

A louder “Mr Adeyemi, please!” got him startled to self-awareness.

And in December, traffic police were startled to find a tiger cub in the boot of a car they had stopped for a minor traffic infraction.

And just today, I have been fielding private notes of alarm from his startled colleagues.

Asylum seekers were startled to discover how hard it is to get dental treatment in the UK.

Biden looked startled, then dazed and confused.

But insiders within the intelligence community were startled by the chancellor's words.

But maybe I shouldn’t be so startled.

He's startled by the whole ordeal.

He worries about his blood pressure and says he is startled by loud noises.

It's named "Jerusalem!" as an exclamation from being startled.

Luckily, the cows were not startled and did not cause any injuries.

She’d startled it again.

This is an evolutionary ‘fight or flight’ response that causes us to be startled when we are surprised.

When the startled man got up and tried to walk away, his 38-year-old assailant followed, aggressively swinging her arms toward him.

Eager to go to sleep since it was around 3.30am and startled that he had found her, she became irritated when he asked to use her phone again.

In 1961, President John F. Kennedy made a bold declaration that startled the world: “Within a decade, America will land a man on the moon and bring him safely back to Earth” (or words to that effect).

In the first scene, Noa appears startled at what he sees in a nighttime gaze through the telescope, while concludes with Noa peering again through the device as his human counterpart, Mae (Freya Allan), looks up into the same nighttime sky.

Morrison's shopper left startled after opening her £3 Too Good To Go bag A woman has shared the contents of her Too Good To Go bag from Morrisons, which was packed full to the brim with items.

My students looked startled but they cooperated.

One afternoon, however, Jonesy became startled when a massive cockroach with an aspic for a head began eating his humans.