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Example sentences for "abruptly"

Lexicographically close words:
abrogated; abrogates; abrogating; abrogation; abrupt; abruptness; abscess; abscesses; abscissa; abscissae
  1. The very notion of a relentless void abruptly turned to a beatific sense of their own seclusion, of there being only themselves in the universe, to live and to delight in each other.

  2. They were hostile; yet when the favourite intimated that he, too, ought to be given up to justice, she showed so much hesitation, that Alexas stopped abruptly and turned the conversation upon Barine.

  3. I allude to an unfortunate newspaper, by name The Beacon, which began to be published in Edinburgh in January, 1821, and was abruptly discontinued in the August of the same year.

  4. Crayford made them his excuse for abruptly leaving the cabin in which the conversation had taken place.

  5. As he put the question, he abruptly looked over his shoulder.

  6. On the contrary, the Federal army continued steadily to concentrate upon Warrenton, where, on the 7th of November, General McClellan was abruptly relieved of the command.

  7. I shall be able to provide myself with a partner when I want one," interrupts she, haughtily, turning abruptly away.

  8. She rises abruptly and begins to pace up and down the room, the hot Irish blood in her veins afire.

  9. Both he and Joyce turn abruptly in its direction--he with a sense of angry astonishment, she with a fell knowledge of its meaning.

  10. Seeing him so uncertain about leaving her, she steps abruptly into a dark side path, and finding a chair sinks into it.

  11. He rises abruptly and goes over to where she is standing on the hearthrug--shading her face from the fire with a huge Japanese fan.

  12. Next day, Marston was mounting his horse for a solitary ride through his park, when Doctor Danvers rode abruptly into the courtyard from the back entrance.

  13. As he thus spoke, as if to avoid the possibility of any further discussion, he turned abruptly from her, and left the room.

  14. It was well for the viceroy that he was an expert swordsman, otherwise his career would undoubtedly have been abruptly terminated upon the floor of "The Jolly Bowlers.

  15. Then, with an effort, he turned abruptly away, and strode rapidly in the direction she had indicated; and when he turned to look again, she was gone.

  16. He then opened the door and abruptly made his exit, leaving poor Mary Ashwoode full of agitating hopes.

  17. He came over, patted her cheek, and then turned abruptly from her, and left the room.

  18. It ended abruptly in almost vertical walls of yellow sandstone of various shades.

  19. A high hill range with vertical cliffs stood on the west side and ended abruptly at the end of the basin.

  20. It rose quite abruptly from the flat alluvial land.

  21. The line was interrupted somewhat abruptly by a higher and irregular three-terraced mass, but soon resumed its sweeping and regularly curved undulations beyond.

  22. The channel twisted round abruptly in two or three places, and in one spot went through a rocky neck 35 m.

  23. It arrives abruptly on the heels of a departing cyclone and, after losing power, steals away without any commotion whatever.

  24. Finally when a climax is reached it departs abruptly on the toe of a thunderstorm.

  25. Malcolm, however, caught sight of him and his attitude in time, and, fearful of breaking his word to Lizzy, pulled himself up abruptly a few steps from the top just as Florimel appeared.

  26. Buloz, under the title of "commissaire du roi," had been manager of the Theatre Francais, but after the revolution of 1848 he was abruptly dismissed.

  27. The spoor seemed to come abruptly to an end--as if the fugitive had been whisked up to the skies.

  28. Around stretched the wide and rolling veldt; here a conical hillock rising abruptly from the plain, there the precipitous line of a range of mountains.

  29. Yet this strange pyramid, with its precipitous cliff-face, thus shot up abruptly to a height of nearly a hundred feet.

  30. Rising abruptly from the bush, about a mile and a half in the rear of the kraal, was a conical tooth-shaped rock, the more noticeable because it seemed to have no business to be there at all.

  31. And then a short and sharp mandate from his superiors interrupting him, the young warrior turned away abruptly to fall into his place in the ranks.

  32. Now that I knew that I was talking to one of the veterans of the gentle craft, as there was no time to waste in idle ceremony, I asked him abruptly what he thought of Shelley as a poet.

  33. The low chain of mountains to the north-east was sometimes abruptly broken, and a prominent peak thrust its summit into the interval.

  34. Its walls rise abruptly at an angle of about 85 deg.

  35. Astonished, he struggled to rise once more, but something held him--his foot seemed to be caught; and as he turned he encountered her bewildered face and felt another desperate tug which brought him abruptly into his seat again.

  36. Would he think her absurd to leave so abruptly when he caught her eye?

  37. He looked at Philip as though he were trying to understand and then abruptly told him he might go.

  38. At last she interrupted abruptly what he was saying: "Philip, I'm afraid I shan't be able to go away on Saturday.

  39. At the latter place a party detached down the Restigouche in 1840 had measured the height of Ben Lomond, a highland rising abruptly from the western termination of the Bay of Chaleurs.

  40. Saying these words, he returned abruptly to the statuette; and refused to speak, or leave his employment again, until he had taken the mold off, and had carefully put away the various fragments of which it consisted.

  41. Gabriel had hardly repeated the first two or three sentences of his grandfather's confession, when the priest, in quick, altered tones, abruptly asked him his name and place of abode.

  42. She abruptly quitted her hold of him, and fronted the whole court in an instant.

  43. Then the brooding silence was abruptly broken by a voice rising from out the depths of the shaft, while a vigorous shaking of the dangling rope caused the windlass to vibrate sharply.

  44. Mr. King set her abruptly on the floor, and took a few turns up and down the room.

  45. Behind him, straight above, the Castle of San Gemignano cut abruptly into the main curve of the sky.

  46. They had come to the run of an abyss, where, the trees receding, the ground broke abruptly into rocky slopes, plunging down perpendicular under thickets of arbutus and pine.

  47. Then he turned abruptly to return to his own table.

  48. She had failed in being able to bring her uncle to the point she wished by the road she had planned, and in seeking another road, she had abruptly fallen into unpleasant places.

  49. Potter appeared in the doorway and stopped abruptly as his eyes found her.

  50. He turned abruptly away, and Tom gazed after him, wondering what it was all about.

  51. They drew up abruptly before the entrance to the building where Cantor maintained an office, and sprang out.


  52. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "abruptly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abruptly; bang; cold; curtly; dash; dead; forthwith; harshly; hastily; headfirst; headlong; impetuously; impulsively; plop; plump; plunk; pop; sharp; sharply; short; shortly; slap; smack; sudden; suddenly; summarily; surprisingly; swiftly; unawares