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[ adverb ] quickly and without warning
Examples "he stopped suddenly" Used in print (Chester G. Starr, The Origins of Greek Civili...)The landscape of Greek history broadens widely , and rather abruptly , in the eighth century B.C. , the age of Homer 's `` rosy fingered Dawn '' . (Clement Greenberg, "Collage" in his Art and...)Left in their previous atom-like smallness , they would have cut_away too abruptly into depth ; and the broad , opaque shapes of pasted paper would have been isolated in such a way as to make them jump_out of plane . (Christopher Davis, First Family....)He had not even thought_about her much except once or twice at night in bed when his slowly ranging thoughts would abruptly , almost accidentally , encounter her . (Frieda Arkin, "The Light of the Sea," in The...)They were climbing the hill in the night when the headlights abruptly probed solid blackness , became two parallel luminous tubes which broadened out into a faint mist of light and ended . (E. Lucas Myers, "The Vindication of Dr. Nestor,"...)The dawn progressed and it seemed that the doctor would never be done_with his ministrations when quite abruptly something broke his revery . |
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