all of a sudden vs all of the sudden

Definitions

adverb

1. happening unexpectedly
2. without warning

Examples

All of a sudden St. Philip's ten bells start tanging - one o’clock already - and at once the workshops and factories around the yard begin disgorging throngs of workers on their way to lunch

Some of the German people were all of a sudden no longer Germans but Czechs or Poles.

Then, all of a sudden rising from her chair, she went over to the jug of roses, which she had placed on the writing-table, bent over the flowers with a kind of perceptible hesitation. and as suddenly came back to her seat.

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