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Example sentences for "quite suddenly"

  • Then, quite suddenly he looked up and their eyes met, Marie's hot and ashamed, though she could not have explained why, and his trying so hard not to betray the agitation that was rending him.

  • Her first nervousness had lost itself in interest She almost started when, quite suddenly, the woman began to speak in a low, clear voice.

  • And then--quite suddenly--the miracle happened!

  • But at last, quite suddenly, when the emptiness and the losing had been getting to seem worse and worse for a long time, they became so bad that they were impossible.

  • Then he took, quite suddenly, to motor bicycling.

  • But in the very moment of saying this to myself a curiously insistent impression came to me quite suddenly, and "out of the blue.

  • As we lay on our beds for a few hours of much needed rest, quite suddenly I realised that I saw something abnormal in the air--just above and in front of my head.

  • Quite suddenly, he was tired of the whole business.

  • Quite suddenly, he had a curious feeling that the thing was alive.

  • Quite suddenly he felt a hard shock, and a flashing sensation of warmth that was somehow inside his own flesh, and not in any tempering of the frozen air.

  • Quite suddenly he came to a halt in the middle of the room.

  • And then, quite suddenly, they came once again into the bright moonlight, to find themselves confronted by a scene which was both grotesque and picturesque.

  • Then, quite suddenly, there came a roar like that of a charging lion.

  • As quick as thought, he stepped behind the pillar, and at once, quite suddenly, and yet without noise or violence, his revolver was taken from his hand.

  • Her eyes opened wider and wider as she counted; and tears, quite suddenly, rolled down on to those thin slips of paper.

  • But, quite suddenly, Cramier turned on his heel.

  • One day, quite suddenly, the flame would sink down to almost nothing, as at last it does in the spent lamp.

  • Quite suddenly he realized that he had been waiting for this--bracing himself against its onslaught.

  • The movement continued, and then, quite suddenly, a figure stepped into the light.

  • Then, quite suddenly, she changed her tone and relapsed into her less responsible manner, and laughed as though something humorous had presented itself to her cheerful fancy.

  • Then, quite suddenly, it raised its head with a start, and the movement caused it to raise a foreleg caught in the trailing reins.

  • At last, however, she stirred, and, quite suddenly, her movements became quick and decided.

  • Quite suddenly, without any sort of warning, she realised that there was some quality in Jimmy which called aloud to some corresponding quality in herself--a nebulous something that made her know that he and she were mates.

  • Now, quite suddenly, he was a whole man once more.

  • Quite suddenly an admirable plan occurred to him.

  • Quite suddenly he rose to his knees, kneeling as he had seen Eldris kneel, and clasped his hands as Eldris had clasped hers.

  • And then, quite suddenly, as they reached the end of it, Nicanor felt with a shock that he must have mistaken the place.

  • Quite suddenly, it seemed vitally important to hear what the voice was saying, for the words were clearly directed at him.

  • Quite suddenly, he knew that Daddy had come home.

  • And then, quite suddenly, he felt terribly afraid.

  • Quite suddenly, it seemed, everybody in the darkened room was aware of a presence.

  • McTeague, quite suddenly it appears; how he could reconcile his theory of transcendental immaterialism with a scheme of rigid moral determinism.

  • There had come a moment--quite suddenly it seemed--when it occurred to everybody at the same time that the whole government of the city was rotten.

  • Then, quite suddenly, the illuminating lightning cut the clouds.

  • Quite suddenly he remembered that he had told that girl, whose name he did not know, that he would come.

  • And then, quite suddenly, entirely unheralded, Escovedo reappeared in Madrid, having come to press Philip in person for reinforcements that should enable Don John to finish the campaign.

  • Several seconds of complete silence followed, then, quite suddenly, as though someone had called her, she opened her eyes wide and turned her head.

  • And then, quite suddenly, she heard a step.

  • The face is so steep on either side that the climber comes quite suddenly to a position whence he overlooks the northern slope, if slope it may be called, and looks down on to the Glacier du Nant Blanc.

  • So long did we delay to dwell on the fairy-like scene, that the vacuous youth, accompanied by the young lady of varied accomplishments, caught us up and joined us quite suddenly, to their exceeding confusion.

  • Quite suddenly, our situation became critical: a hurried glance up and down along the line revealed the fact that each member of the party had to do all he knew to preserve his position.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quite suddenly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after thinking; bright light; like reason; only meant; open eyes; quite cold; quite correct; quite different; quite enough; quite fresh; quite gone; quite good; quite hardy; quite independent; quite like; quite plain; quite ready; quite soft; quite still; quite understand; quite useless; quite well; quite willing; spring back; steep hill; third psalm