How to Use abruptly in a Sentence

abruptly

adverb

• The second truck that had been following us, tan-colored and laden with a heavy machine gun abruptly pulled over to our side, hemming us in.
  — Clarissa Ward, CNN, 23 Oct. 2024
• At first, Sam sounds unconcerned that his mother abruptly abandoned her children.
  — oregonlive, 1 Aug. 2022
• But then the economy abruptly reopened, and a new government was sworn in that was paralyzed by infighting.
  — Joseph Krauss, Star Tribune, 18 Sep. 2020
• The party ended when global oil prices abruptly started dropping in the autumn of 2014.
  — Kejal Vyas, WSJ, 4 Sep. 2020
• Then the audio abruptly moved to the other end of the room entirely, and then with another tweak on the iPad controller, the vocals were brought to the one end and the bass moved off to one side.
  — Benny Har-Even, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2024
• The Chinese capital is in the grip of its worst Covid wave yet, after officials nationwide abruptly abandoned the stringent curbs that have kept the virus at bay for much of the past three years.
  — Emma O'Brien, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2022
• That movie, also a bomb, was notoriously remembered not just for a troubled set — crewmembers reported being abruptly fired — but also for a revolving door of financiers.
  — Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Jan. 2023
• 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 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

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024