How To Use Abrupt In A Sentence
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The abrupt facies shift, bioturbation and cemented nature of the surfaces suggests that they represent marine flooding surfaces, formed during a rapid rise in relative sea level and/or a reduction in sediment supply.
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The driver braked abruptly, causing the car to skid a little.
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What links the eyes of these three coffins, beside the fact that all are painted, is that the inner canthus--the corner of the eye near the nose--descends abruptly and abuts the upper lid, giving them an East Asian appearance.
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Retirement is likely to move from an abrupt halt at a fixed age to a more gradual withdrawal, with the abolition of compulsory retirement ages.
Times, Sunday Times
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At the end of an hour, the ascent becoming every moment more abrupt, we had passed the belt of trees and bushes, and reached the smooth and scoriaceous cone, which, during the rainy season, appears from the bay to be covered with a velvety mantle of green.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860
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She looked taken aback for a second; the change of subject had been abrupt.
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She walked abruptly to the door and pulled it back and ran to the railing where the carn fell away to the sea below.
LET NOT THE DEEP
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The U.S. S.ate Department Monday expressed surprise at the -- quote -- "abruptness" and said other countries face their own decisions on whether to stay or go.
CNN Transcript Apr 19, 2004
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All across the world, ...increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether or not climate change is real. Not only is it real, it's here, and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster. Barack Obama
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Corden's playing career ended abruptly when he smashed his knee on his debut for Darlington.
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Too much of ourselves must be deleted when we erase our personal histories and abruptly dissociate ourselves from who we have been’.
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The fairy tale romance has come to an abrupt and totally unexpected end.
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The moment was abruptly shattered by the sound of Mia's loud voice.
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She had been ready with a quick retort but the words died on her lips, her manner underwent an abrupt change.
NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
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The transition was so abrupt that it took her by surprise.
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Illness is characterized by abrupt onset of fever, myalgia and headache.
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Our partnership came to a painfully abrupt end one afternoon when she ran off with me under a metal paddock rail.
FRANKIE: The Autobiography of Frankie Dettori
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Still more profound a touch is that where Ottima, daring her lover to the "one thing that must be done; you know what thing: Come in and help to carry," says, with affected lightsomeness, "This dusty pane might serve for looking-glass," and simultaneously exclaims, as she throws them rejectingly from her nervous fingers, "Three, four -- four grey hairs!" then with an almost sublime coquetry of horror turns abruptly to Sebald, saying with a voice striving vainly to be blithe --
Life of Robert Browning
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This smoke or flame, perhaps, would be the better word for it was so bright that the deep blue sky overhead and the hazy stretches of brown common towards Chertsey, set with black pine trees, seemed to darken abruptly as these puffs arose, and to remain the darker after their dispersal.
The War of The Worlds
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Abruptly, he pushes forward on the joystick again and the glider drops.
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The _first glume_ is cuneately obovate or obcordate, yellowish with red brown tips or dark brown with yellow tips, chartaceous below, membranous, hyaline and ciliate at the truncate, emarginate or retuse apex, 7 - to 9-nerved, the nerves abruptly ceasing towards the apex.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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The bridge's roadway undulates gently at first, then abruptly starts heaving and twisting violently until it finally breaks apart.
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These policies have sent the construction industry into an abrupt nosedive.
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Coastal wetlands are also characteristic of this ecoregion, and near the first foothills of the western range there are some arid, rocky scrublands with abrupt relief, where columnar, candelabra and opuntia cacti typically grow.
Sechura desert
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J.nnifer Lopez's split from Sony Music isn't quite as amicable as she wants you to think: evidently the label abruptly dropped J. Lo because of recent flops.
Crushable
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But when the economy as such does not grow, changes in the economy are bound to be abrupt and sharp.
MANAGEMENT: task, responsibilities, practices
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With its abrupt cuts, minimal score, copious dialogue, and large ensemble cast, the film has an underproduced, semi-documentary feel.
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As my train arrived, the monsoon abruptly stopped, the sun came out, leaving me gently steaming on platform five at Reading.
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The contrast for the eleven-year-old with the more informal and less specialist work of the primary school was sharp and abrupt.
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No," she said, a word abrupt and uncommon to her, putting the ka’athyra back on its shelf with finality.
Dwellers in the Crucible
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Conclusion: To find placental abruption early and treat correctly can decrease danger of pregnancies and infants.
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His nostrils were filled abruptly with the distinct smell of smoke and burning food.
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War brought an abrupt end to this life of leisure.
Times, Sunday Times
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Our road ended abruptly at a cluster of cottages with names like Moor Head and Little Gill.
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Her next remark abruptly terminated the conversation.
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His vision of modernity has been to preside over the House in a vestigial remnant of the Speaker's traditional costume, so that he resembles a schoolmaster summoned abruptly from the lunch table.
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So once again they manage to juxtapose the puissant music with the borderline puerile ideas, ensorcelling you before dropping you with an abrupt thud.
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But everything of that kind was brought abruptly to an end by a loud discordant blowing of horns and the hollow _tub, tub, tub_ of a number of rude drums; at which sounds the crowd around us broke up at once and retired, our little Hebe casting back at us more than one glance strongly indicative, as it seemed to me, of compassion.
The Congo Rovers A Story of the Slave Squadron
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He stared into Johnny's face for several seconds, turned abruptly on his heel and strode away without looking back.
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The old castle and fortress of Guevara is perched on the crown of what Captain Dalgetty would call a monticle, rising very abruptly out of the most arid and dry plain it was ever my fortune to visit.
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The institution of positive-pressure ventilation in an already hyperinflated thorax can markedly worsen hemodynamics and cause abrupt falls in blood pressure including cardiac collapse.
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The notion that bureaucratic infighting and occasional abruptness of manner should disqualify one from high office is laughable.
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Drusilla suddenly came to an abrupt stop and Miri bumped into her.
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It had never occurred to her that a new possibility would crop up abruptly.
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When I mentioned his chinstrap swinging, he grew irritated, abruptly grabbed his strap, and snapped it.
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There were no drainage ditches here, the shoulders too abrupt, the slope too precipitous, to collect water.
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Sudden cardiac death, an abrupt event in which the heart stops, affects one in 100,000 to 300,000 athletes.
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Laterally it graded "abruptly" into the typical cubalpine forest of the Snake Range in which spruce and limber pine were codominant and bristlecone was conspicuously absent.
Cutting Down the Oldest Living Tree in the World « Climate Audit
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She lingered for a moment, uncertain what to do, then turned on her heel and left abruptly.
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He nuzzled his nose against the crook of my neck before abruptly letting me go.
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On his abrupt and unexpected apparition, Diana paled and Ruth flushed slightly, whereupon Sir Rowland might have bethought him, had he been book-learned, of the axiom, "Amour qui rougit, fleurette; amour qui plit, drame du coeur.
Mistress Wilding
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In his mid-twenties he decided on an abrupt change.
Times, Sunday Times
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A run through the historical record, staring with Tacitus on Nero's blaming the Christians for the Great Fire, then Pliny on his administrative problems in Bithynia, then a long section on Cyprian (who I think gets more coverage than any other non-emperor); then a period of relaxation, which however is abruptly reversed by Diocletian (though that period of persecution seems to be more effective in the East).
Gibbon Chapter XVI
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From behind they rise in rough, uneven, and heathy declivities, out of the wide muir before mentioned, between Loch Eitive and Loch Awe; but in front they terminate abruptly in the most frightful precipices, which form the whole side of the pass, and descend at one fall into the water which fills its trough.
Chronicles of the Canongate
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Keyan was in the middle of a swallow of vodka on the rocks, which he drank like water, when his glass stopped abruptly in mid-swallow.
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Oddly enough, though the wounds haven't bothered him in years, Jonnie is abruptly aware that his shirt collar is chafing at the rough scar tissue left over from that old attack.
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A tilde over the vowel indicates a high broken tone, in which the voice starts slightly above the middle of the normal speaking voice range, drops and then rises abruptly.
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The accident brought his career to an abrupt end.
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Timon changes from benevolence to sour misanthropy with a many inartistic abruptness, many readers feel.
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His attitude underwent an abrupt transition , ie changed suddenly.
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He closed his speech abruptly.
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What starts out as a formulaic high school love story of opposites attracting abruptly changes into a maudlin tear-jerker.
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In the heady days of 2006 and 2007, investors often asked Mr. Thin questions about less-familiar currencies such as the Ukrainian hryvnia and Romanian leu, but the inquiries stopped abruptly when the global recession made investors wary about taking on riskier assets.
'Frontier' Markets Ahead For Currency Investors?
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The open door and housekeeping cart brought us to an abrupt halt.
Times, Sunday Times
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If a woman has irregular menses, abrupt hair loss, hirsutism, or acne recurrence, an endocrine evaluation is appropriate.
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Scott McClellan, prior victim of horrible gay rumors, was helped out the door abruptly, possibly at the urging of Josh Bolten, DC batchelor.
Think Progress » Kristol: ‘Sudden’ Goss Resignation Prompted By ‘Something That Popped This Week’
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The late 1970s saw an abrupt rightward shift in the attitude of the US on the world stage.
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Of the development type of abrupt change gradual advance, and leap over, the development type of gradual advance is the best choice.
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How could he explain his abrupt disappearance from the party?
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Towards the end of the film, when an altercation with the earnest young locksmith erupts abruptly into violence, he retreats into religious superstition as a means of rationalising a seemingly inexplicable plot development.
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Early glottic closure is seen as an abrupt cessation of flow during expiration, visible as a sharp downslope on the expiratory flow volume curve.
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On inspection, the toes angle abruptly toward the midline, creating a C-shaped lateral foot border with a prominent styloid process of the fifth metatarsal.
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The cocker spaniel puppy stopped abruptly, then eyed the spinning leaf overhead.
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A collision inevitably resulted, abruptly jolting both men back to reality.
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The rosacea lesions had completely cleared within three weeks of abrupt withdrawal of the topical steroid and initiation of antibiotic therapy in 22 percent of the children.
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He left abruptly for Switzerland, where he spent the duration of the war.
Times, Sunday Times
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Another consideration linked to an abrupt change in optical properties for a given wavelength is that of dosimetry.
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She gasped in surprise but abruptly hid her astonishment from her mother who looked up at the sound.
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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Other trackways start or stop abruptly, with no sign that the animals’ missing tracks were covered by some disturbance such as shifting sediments.
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Mercedes was taken back by the sudden change of emotion on Jake's face and his abrupt outburst of profanity.
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He turned around abruptly to see an old man in a long gray hooded cloak walking slowly toward him.
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Its sides were wild, abrupt, and precipitous, and partially covered with copse-wood, as was the little brawling stream which ran through it, and of which the eye of the spectator could only catch occasional glimpses from among the hazel, dogberry, and white thorn, with which it was here and there covered.
The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One
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King Abdullah of Jordan dealt a rebuff to President Bush on Monday, abruptly putting off his visit to Washington scheduled for later this week.
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Seaward of the road, the grassy slopes end abruptly in rugged cliffs pounded by waves.
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If lithium is abruptly discontinued during the manic phase, relapse may occur within several days.
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We rounded the curve, and the corridor came to an abrupt halt.
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But instead of staying to shake hands, to move from table to table, to take names and phone numbers, to marshal some of this excitement for that "door-to-door" movement he had envisioned, Sharpton abruptly strode from the ballroom and the hotel.
Pompadour With a Monkey Wrench
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The fool reined the horse, which for some time had been moving painfully, and at that abrupt cessation of motion the jestress looked up with a start.
Under the Rose
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Meanwhile Friday's retail sales figures allayed some concerns about the prospect of an abrupt economic landing.
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From the edges of the valley, the land rises abruptly in steep high buttes.
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They abruptly slashed welfare rates by 22 percent, used workfare and other regulatory changes to drive people off benefits, froze minimum wages and stopped building social housing.
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Some faculty members find the prospect of abruptly ending their academic careers distasteful and choose instead to postpone retirement.
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I was once more on the Great Conglomerate, -- here, as elsewhere, a picturesque, boldly-featured deposit, traversed by narrow, mural-sided valleys, and tempested by bluff abrupt eminences.
The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
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an abrupt canyon
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She abruptly broke off the conversation to ask a man browsing through the thrash metal section if he could find what he was looking for.
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Doctors thought she might have “placental abruption”, and that the baby would be at risk of being stillborn.
Matthew Yglesias » Tebow to Alienate Pro Football Fans During Super Bowl
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Then, very abruptly, fixing his eyes on me, all of a swither, with my milk-stained cap in my hand,
The Yeoman Adventurer
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The late 1970s saw an abrupt rightward shift in the attitude of the US on the world stage.
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Their whimsical nature, abrupt discontinuities and formal ‘shortcuts’ came across vividly.
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The open door and housekeeping cart brought us to an abrupt halt.
Times, Sunday Times
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These rules were rescinded abruptly five days after they were made public in press reports.
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After saving the life of the President, two Secret Service agents find themselves abruptly transferred to Warehouse 13 – a massive, top-secret storage facility in windswept South Dakota that houses every strange artifact, mysterious relic, fantastical object and supernatural souvenir ever collected by the U.S. government.
Sci-fi TV Preview: Warehouse 13 « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more
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But the optimism rapidly evaporated with his abrupt about-face a few days later.
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He flips a switch. A "rat-a-tat-tat" sound, like that of a staple gun, echoes through his helmet, and fatigue abruptly flees his mind.
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A part of the landscape is an interesting phenomenon; in amongst the endless fields, you will find the occasional lonely hill, rising abruptly from the earth and coming to a broad flat top ... utterly alien in that flat land, and upon reflection, very hard to explain.
Archive 2010-04-01
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For most patients, therefore, 1 or 2 days of treatment suffice to abolish the panic attack and its short-term aftereffects; afterward, the drug can be abruptly discontinued.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
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After finding a magical hiding place, she is abruptly dragged back to reality.
Times, Sunday Times
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Messner describes abrupt recurrences, rapid shifts of symptoms, and hallucinations in relatively untroubled personalities as supportive of complex partial seizures.
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an abrupt change in the weather
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Nightmares are vivid and terrifying nocturnal episodes in which the dreamer is abruptly awakened from sleep.
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Just a few hundred metres down the road, the car abruptly lurches to the right and back again.
Times, Sunday Times
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Jordan, unfortunately, compounds this weakness with an abrupt style.
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We had erred in stripping her of her position in such an abrupt manner.
Christianity Today
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Gulls wheeled and pitched over abrupt flurries of small baitfish, and the ripe scent of feeding fish was in the air.
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The protoplasm is more or less extensively excavated by fluid spaces, vacuoles; one clearer circular space or vacuole, which is invariably present, appears at intervals, enlarges gradually, and then vanishes abruptly, to reappear after a brief interval; this is called the contractile vacuole (c.v.).
Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata
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To make it more spectacular the escarpment is sliced by multiple canyons and valleys that plummet abruptly to the semi-desert African plane thousands of feet below.
Family reunion in Addis! « Cameroon
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The auditory ease of the merry mockeries of maidens is abruptly undermined by the trochaic retarding of the ‘sharp voices’ insisting on ‘maiden labour.’
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His abrupt departure left her close to collapse.
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Such abrupt changes of sedimentary environment were caused by coseismic crustal movements," Kim and his team wrote in their study.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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Sorry, I didn't mean to be so abrupt.
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But the festivities will be cut abruptly short by the anniversary, which Hoboken will mark in a manner far more sombre and sober than the hullabaloo over the river.
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I left my beloved profession abruptly in confusion and sadness-I have written of it previously.
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Sanders would zoom into the end zone, come to an abrupt stop, then flip the ball to the official, equally as unamazed at himself as everyone else was amazed.
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P. testa ovali, postice abrupte truncata, imperforata, cornea; spira plana, tenui; anfractibus quatuor, planis, ultimo permagno, postice acute angulato, transversim obsolete striato; apertura oblongo-truncata; labio antice valde tortuoso; labro postice angulato.
The Journals of John McDouall Stuart
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In every period of worship these things take on the numinosity of faith, each with its inherent worth abruptly revealed.
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That ride came to abrupt halt last season.
Times, Sunday Times
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At the time of its abrupt opening, layers of unconsolidated lime mud and ash were already deposited on the dolomite surface.
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That ride came to abrupt halt last season.
Times, Sunday Times
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These terminate abruptly to the northeast at a fault that offsets the thrust.
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Despite her abrupt style winning her as many friends as it did enemies, there was no denying that she deserved to be there.
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I was told that I write in short bursts and my writing is kinda abrupt.
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His defenestration was coldly abrupt, and in his place, the Football Association resurrected a veteran manager and former England star for seven games.
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Her abrupt removal from the campus sparked student sit-ins and early morning pickets in front of the school.
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Into the replying email she typed a short, abrupt message.
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The government is still micro-meddling in business, and the abrupt flip-flop highlights their inconsistent policy-making.
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A long, drawn out, boring evening with terribly rude and abrupt service.
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I find convincing the argument that there was some intellectual activity in non-Muslim lands for a few centuries after the initial conquest, as long as the Christians and Jews (in the Middle East) were still a significant and fructifying influence, and that when they ceased to be, such activity came to an abrupt end.
Scary
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The building was deserted, but the sight I beheld brought me to an abrupt halt.
THE SCHEME FOR FULL EMPLOYMENT
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Some grooves deepen and terminate fairly abruptly.
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He left abruptly for Switzerland, where he spent the duration of the war.
Times, Sunday Times
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Red-Eye abruptly ceased his breast-beating and tooth-grinding, and ran across the timber-jam to the shore.
CHAPTER XI
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However, the other boat suddenly came to an abrupt halt, amid much cursing and shouting from its wetsuited skipper and his drysuited mate.
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At a moment like this, in the abrupt silence after Lewis's voice trails off, the listener often overhears Mitchell in the background trying to stifle his laughter.
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There may be a gradual or prolonged build-up of the episode rather than the abrupt onset typical of an epileptic seizure.
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Bartlemy said, passing it to Annie - he didn't miss Rowena's quick gesture of interception, abruptly checked.
THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
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Tristan abruptly backs away, the wind rising and stinging his face.
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However, as the paraboloid becomes narrower, it tilts, then abruptly tumbles onto its side.
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An alleged sharp decline in the quality of golf tuition after the abrupt departure of experienced coaches.
Times, Sunday Times
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Scene after scene, the professor uses the meaning he assigns to words to establish dictatorial superiority over his pupil up until to the abrupt dark comedic ending.
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In recent years the defense and aerospace giant has weathered operational snafus, ethical scandals, criminal convictions, and abrupt executive departures.
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Placenta previa and placenta abruptio, both of which can cause severe bleeding. to name a few.
Apollo's Daughter :: June 2nd, 2009
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When fully grown, its gigantic buttressed trunk, which stretches up to 10 meters in diameter, abruptly ends in the branches that bear digitate leaves.
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This has led to abrupt changes in plans, and thrilling offers.
Times, Sunday Times
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In one part of the country the roads are metalled and well-signposted, but as soon as your car enters another borough, the dual carriageway abruptly becomes a pot-holed dirt-track.
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They adopt an abrupt, unpunctuated, lower-case style difficult to comprehend even by their correspondents.
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In the village, as he meets his sisters and others among whom he grew up, a flood of memories overwhelms him, and he abruptly changes his mind about selling the property.
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It seems like only an instant has passed when we are abruptly shaken from sleep by a loud voice commanding everyone to now go to the main gate.
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It smelled as if the room itself had been abruptly conveyed to some putrescent corner of Hell.
The Sanchez Ghost
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This cosy arrangement has been abruptly terminated, however, by new government regulations limiting the sort of work that amateurs can carry out.
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Try not to let an abrupt or dismissive manner put you off seeking other help.
Coping with Bulimia
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Barley sugar (which formerly contained barley, but now does not) is simply sugar which has been slightly caramelized and then abruptly cooled to solidify it to a glassy state.
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Madame Waddington opened the Ouvroir Holophane on the 15th of August, her first object being to give employment and so countercheck the double menace of starvation and haunted idleness for at least fifty poor women: teachers, music-mistresses, seamstresses, lace makers, women of all ages and conditions abruptly thrown out of work.
The Living Present
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Dixira stopped abruptly, his nose inches from the wooden shafts of the pikes.
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Her mysterious silences and then her loud, abrupt blasts of sound had made him curious, so he walked to the door, and rested his had on the door knob.
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Above the splenium of the corpus callosum, the cingulate sulcus turns abruptly upwards to reach the superior margin of the hemisphere.
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In the finale the abrupt changes of pace were contrasted to always good musical effect.
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She took her thumb off the demon and was abruptly skyborn as the white stallion cleared a slab of twisted, smoking metal at a bound.
Calde of the Long Sun
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The most likely cause is an abrupt or inappropriate movement of the helicopter's controls or the stalling of the main rotor blade due to icing on the engine carburetor.
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After the election our funding came to an abrupt halt.
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Firefighters Union Initially Snubbed Giuliani For "Disgraceful Lack Of Respect" After 9/11...And Other Campaign Updates
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Contrasting the abruptness of earthquakes is the slow drift of tectonic plates.
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The moon, a nail clipping on a black cloth, rises and as abruptly sets.
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Several years in the making, New York Times writer and Latin soul aficionado Matthew Ramirez Warren's labor of love aims to shed light on the rise and then the abrupt fall of Latin boogaloo.
Isabelle Davis: A Labor of Love: We Like It Like That - The Story Of Latin Boogaloo
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The latter appendage, short and "bunchy", ended abruptly, as if either cut off or "driven in" -- adding to the uncouth appearance of the animal.
The Boy Slaves
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In an analysis of case fatality rates among pregnant women who had placental abruption subsequent to trauma, 69 percent of fetal deaths were prevented by cesarean delivery.
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He found himself indicted for arson and attempted murder, his career an abrupt and ignominious end.
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Perhaps the gun violence would end if these killers knew their lives would be placed in abrupt jeopardy.
Some Thoughts On The Virginia Tech Massacre
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The fight abruptly ended in order to save the beer pot from being broken.
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The whole boat jerked sternwards abruptly with the recoil, as though when underway she had struck a rock, and the smoke came back round them in a sullen pall.
Hornblower And The Hotspur
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Its _brool_ deepening, the Parrott stirred, shot forward abruptly.
The Lone Wolf A Melodrama
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Abruptly the group ahead of us came to a standstill.
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His first groan brought Raven out of her contemplations abruptly.
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Abruptly, the creature's wild silvery eyes snapped open, and a guttural screech echoed from its throat, as it spread is massive feathered wings and stood.
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The mandibular arch in the developing fish is abruptly angled, as in the embryo of Tetrapoda; the upper prong of it ossifies into the palatine and pterygoid; at the angle is formed the quadrate (jugal, Cuvier), and to the quadrate is articulated the lower jaw, which ossifies round the lower prong or Meckel's cartilage.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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And the story holds together fairly well, apart from the slightly abrupt and unsatisfying ending.
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The receptionist and support people were a little bit abrupt at first.
The Guide to Lesbian and Gay Parenting
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He came to an abrupt halt, then recollected himself quickly.
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She saw his glance flick down to her mouth, then abruptly he was turning away.
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She employed, not from any refinement of style, but in order to correct her imprudences, abrupt breaches of syntax not unlike that figure which the grammarians call anacoluthon or some such name.
The Captive
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In fact, their disappearance from the rocky strata was so abrupt that it signalled a cataclysm.
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He found himself indicted for arson and attempted murder, his career an abrupt ignominious end.
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Her faint scream of shock was abruptly stifled by a hand clamped over her mouth.
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The sale was abruptly halted, the value of the painting plummeted and the they decided to sue.
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Busy textures are rich with incident and hidden melody, though final cadences are perhaps abrupt.
Times, Sunday Times
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These soil conditions explain the treeless grassy summits as well as the belt of savanna at 500-550 m around the mountains above which the forests take over The Nimba Mountains have great topographical diversity, with valleys, plateaux, rounded hilltops, rocky peaks, abrupt cliffs, waterfalls and bare granite blocks; the whole area being a vast water catchment and reservoir.
Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve, Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire
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Pre-race favourites, Oxford's two-year domination came to an abrupt end when a clash of blades four minutes into the race caused Oxford's bowman to lose his seat and Cambridge to take the lead.
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Frank stopped laughing abruptly and said, ‘so, when your people find your floater, they will be right next to the door?’
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The _first glume_ is cuneately obovate or obcordate, yellowish with red brown tips or dark brown with yellow tips, chartaceous below, membranous, hyaline and ciliate at the truncate, emarginate or retuse apex, 7 - to 9-nerved, the nerves abruptly ceasing towards the apex.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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What has brought about this abrupt change?
Times, Sunday Times
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How else could one account for the astonishingly abrupt shift in the American horror film from the progressive, exploratory, often radical late '60s-'70s to the reactionary and repressive '80s?
