He took it to the window, and gave a slight start.
It was Caffyn, and he put up his eyeglass to conceal a slight start as he saw who were there.
As he answered her in the negative she gave a slight start, and knitted her brows; and after another pause she demanded, "You do not believe in revealed religion then?
She was thinking of Mr. Harrison; and as she glanced about her, she could not keep from giving a slight start.
The girl gave a slight start, but then she answered quietly: "Thank you, Auntie; I shall go down and see him.
She gave a slight start, but did not raise her head.
Again he gave a slight start, and this time he hid his eyes.
Sampson gave a slight start, barely perceptible like the twitch of an awakening tiger.
Both Evaline and Sir Edgar gave a slight start; but their surprise, though greater than can well be imagined, was quickly lost in the excess of their joy.
Hearing the clatter of the retreating horse, he turned round; but though the robber had only a slight start of him, and was no better armed than himself, he showed no disposition to give him chase.
She gave a slight start as she glanced in the man’s face, and then turned an anxious gaze around her, as if to ascertain, by this hasty survey, whether any other person was within sight.
She gave a slight start, for in their letters to one another they had been discussing this very point.
Joan could not suppress a slight start; she had not noticed her on entering.
Joan had put a question to him, and with a slight start he had asked her to repeat it.
The girl, who had given a slight start when I began, remained for some time after I had concluded the song, standing motionless as a statue, with the kettle in her hand.
He made a slight start in surprise on perceiving the cardinal, and bowed twice very low, without raising his eyes.
Romola gave a slight start, but her impulse now was to do just what Savonarola told her.
Tessa gave a slight start at Romola's new tone of inquiry, and looked up at her with a hesitating expression.
The girl, who had given a slight start when I began, remained for some time after I had concluded the song standing motionless as a statue, with the kettle in her hand.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slight start" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
