Startlingly
['sta:tliŋli]
Definition
(adv.) In a startling manner.
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Examples
- There was something most startlingly familiar about him, exclaimed Mr. Philander, And yet, bless me, I know I never saw him before. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- On and on it flowed, a current of meaningless sound, on which, startlingly enough, a familiar name now and then floated to the surface. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The frescoes on the walls were startlingly suited to the place. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- To-day the place and region have gone back to the insignificance from which Edison's genius lifted them so startlingly. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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