abruptly

How To Use abruptly In A Sentence

• The driver braked abruptly, causing the car to skid a little.
• 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. Archive 2008-03-01
• 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
• 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 
• Corden's playing career ended abruptly when he smashed his knee on his debut for Darlington.
• Too much of ourselves must be deleted when we erase our personal histories and abruptly dissociate ourselves from who we have been’.
• The moment was abruptly shattered by the sound of Mia's loud voice.
• 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
• 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
• Abruptly, he pushes forward on the joystick again and the glider drops.