startling

The improvement of the Chatsworth players around Arenas has been startling compared to last year.

There was also a magnitude 4.7 on Sept. 12 — startling enough that the city’s mayor and his wife dove under their kitchen table.

Those are the startling claims being made by a US company that said on Tuesday it had created mice with "mammoth-like traits".

It's a startling turn in a story that gripped Japan when it first broke -the then 28-year-old Shiori ignored her family's request to remain silent.

When Laurie banged on the glass door, startling Kate and Jaclyn as they talked behind her back, it gave me flashes of wonderful terror a la “Real Housewives of New York’s” infamous Scary Island trip.