How to Use abruptly in a Sentence

abruptly

adverb

• His friends' grief over his death returned after the mural abruptly disappeared last fall.
  — Holly V. Hays, The Indianapolis Star, 14 Nov. 2024
• In the first five hours of their trek, Tony abruptly stops and drops to the ground.
  — Mark Peikert, IndieWire, 29 Sep. 2024
• The door slid open abruptly and half a dozen men emerged.
  — Nicholas Daniloff, wsj.com, 4 Apr. 2023
• But what could change the climate of the whole ocean so abruptly?
  — Lisa Wells, Harper’s Magazine , 13 Mar. 2023
• And then the wind, as fickle as the gods, abruptly shifted in front of them.
  — David Grann, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
• One bad game and even the best teams’ seasons can abruptly come to an end.
  — Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2024
• In the decade before, hundreds of young, healthy kids in the US abruptly felt their limbs go weak.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 5 Feb. 2024
• The way she was taken from us, so young, so abruptly, broke a lot of people's hearts.
  — Natasha Dye, Peoplemag, 10 Mar. 2023
• Zoe's, a Greek eatery in Harvard Square, closed abruptly last week.
  — Steph Solis, Axios, 16 July 2024
• Carlson was abruptly pushed out of Fox News on April 24.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 11 Dec. 2023
• No sooner had the anchor group joined Sever’s team on the far side of the squares than the snow abruptly stopped and drones were in the air again.
  — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
• The 10-year returns rose abruptly for hundreds of funds.
  — Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 14 July 2023
• Chapek was fired abruptly in November, and the board brought Iger in to replace him.
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2023
• The video cuts off abruptly and does not show the voter's final ballot.
  — Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 1 Nov. 2024
• The human driver then sped ahead of the robotaxi and braked abruptly in front of it.
  — Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2024
• The ad showed a 3-year-old girl in a New York City park counting petals on a daisy, then cut abruptly to a mushroom cloud.
  — Julia Sonenshein, The New Republic, 27 July 2023
• The sidewalk ends abruptly and drops straight into grass.
  — Spencer Norris, Sun Sentinel, 16 Feb. 2023
• On either end of the slump, the road ends abruptly, some of its crumble visible down the steep hill.
  — Iris Samuels, Anchorage Daily News, 16 July 2023
• Her file ends abruptly, with the Gestapo planning her arrest.
  — Laurie Marhoefer, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Sep. 2023
• But abruptly, the technician stopped pointing at the screen and left the room to get the obstetrician.
  — Elizabeth Cohen, CNN, 2 May 2023
• Slugs closed abruptly, in 1972, after the trumpeter Lee Morgan was shot and killed on the bandstand by his wife.
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024
• The meeting ended abruptly and their son remained in school.
  — Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 9 Apr. 2024
• Just then, my minder rounded the corner and the deckhand abruptly walked away.
  — Ian Urbina, TIME, 26 Oct. 2023
• The narrative breaks off abruptly with the birth of Ava’s mother, Laura.
  — Rhoda Feng, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2023
• One of the pledges recalled that a blender was placed between his legs and abruptly turned on to scare him, splashing water on his groin.
  — Nicholas Confessore, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2023
• About 30 seconds before the van abruptly stopped, footage shows Cox lying on the floor in the back of the vehicle trying to get up.
  — Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 10 June 2023
• Noah abruptly announced his exit in late 2022 in front of a live audience that had come to see a the taping of a new episode.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 5 Oct. 2023
• The text also helped lead to the Murdochs’ decision a few days later to abruptly pull Mr. Carlson off the air.
  — Jeremy W. Peters, New York Times, 27 May 2023
• High up in the grandstand, a man abruptly stood up beneath the churning dark skies overhead and shouted at the players.
  — Sally H. Jacobs, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Aug. 2023
• In West Virginia, a subsidy program for public employees was showing promising results, but then the state abruptly ended it, leaving many searching for new solutions.
  — Mark Strassmann, CBS News, 25 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024