Crossword-Solution: STARTLES
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| STARTLES | anagram | STARLETS, TELSTARS |
We have 14 clues for the answer “STARTLES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Catches by surprise | 1 answer |
| Catches napping. | 1 answer |
| Causes alarm | 1 answer |
| Makes a loud noise, perhaps | 1 answer |
| Makes one jump | 1 answer |
| Scares suddenly | 1 answer |
| Catches off guard | 2 answers |
| Takes by surprise | 3 answers |
| Catches unawares | 4 answers |
| Scares | 5 answers |
| Alarms | 8 answers |
| Surprises. | 9 answers |
| Frightens | 10 answers |
| Shocks | 15 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEREA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with STARTLES (5)
What a disordered state you are in! The least thing--nothing--startles you! _You_, your father’s daughter!” “I thought, my father,” said Lucie, excusing herself, with a pale face and in a faltering voice, “that I heard strange feet upon the stairs.” “My love, the staircase is as still as Death.” As he said the word, a blow was struck upon the door.
When shakin' their bustles like ladies so fine, The guns o' the enemy wheel into line, Shoot low at the limbers an' don't mind the shine, For noise never startles the soldier.
III.—ON FALLING IN LOVE “Lord, what fools these mortals be!” THERE is only one event in life which really astonishes a man and startles him out of his prepared opinions.
But when a lawyer travels from London to Hampshire without being sent for, and when his arrival at a gentleman’s house seriously startles the gentleman himself, it may be safely taken for granted that the legal visitor is the bearer of some very important and very unexpected news—news which may be either very good or very bad, but which cannot, in either case, be of the common everyday kind.
First startles her with th' emerald Mad-Lover The ruby Arcas, least she should recover Her dazled thought, a Diamond he throws, Splendid in all the bright Aspatia's woes; Then to sum up the abstract of his store, He flings a rope of Pearl of forty more.
Quotes with STARTLES (3)
I don't know if anyone's ever told you this", he begins. He doesn't blush, and his eyes don't dart away. Instead I find myself staring into a pair of oceans - one perfect, the other blemished by that tiny ripple. "You're very attractive." catches me off guard. But it startles me so much that without thinking I blurt out, "I could say the same about you." I pause. "In case you didn't know." A slow grin spreads across his face. "Oh, trust me. I know.
In a universe where all life is in movement, where ever fact seen in perspective is totally engaging, we impose stillness on lively young bodies, distort reality to dullness, make action drudgery. Those who submit - as the majority does - are conditioned to a life lived without their human birthright: work done with the joy and creativity of love. But what are schools for if not to make children fall so deeply in love with the world that they really want to learn about it? Th…
Grief is an artist of powers as various as the instruments upon which he plays his dirges for the dead, evoking from some the sharpest, shrillest notes, from others the low, grave chords that throb recurrent like the slow beating of a distant drum. Some natures it startles; some it stupefies. To one it comes like the stroke of an arrow, stinging all the sensibilities to a keener life; to another as the blow of a bludgeon, which in crushing benumbs.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 15 times in crossword archives (1961–2023).