How to Use abruptly in a Sentence

abruptly

adverb

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• When the bourgeois demonstrations turned abruptly into mass protests by the urban poor, the aging king lacked the strength of will to face the crisis.
  — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 26 Dec. 2023
• The location shut down abruptly in June 2021 with the announcement and closure coming on the same day.
  — Journal Sentinel, 5 July 2023
• Private lenders who got spooked that they would not be repaid abruptly cut off the flow of money, leaving countries in the lurch.
  — Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 18 June 2023
• The version that screened at CinemaCon in April ended abruptly, with a chunk of the final scene missing.
  — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 3 June 2023
• Then, just as abruptly, the weather is expected to turn colder again.
  — Rick Hurd, The Mercury News, 9 Apr. 2024
• Chair brings meeting to order, then abruptly moves to adjourn.
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2023
• Songs ended abruptly, mid-note, with yet more feedback swelling in lieu of stage banter between them.
  — Cameron Cook, Pitchfork, 7 Nov. 2023
• Cassian abruptly shoots him, a move that surprised the audience and even left some confused.
  — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 June 2023
• Hostin said abruptly, and Behar responded with a laugh.
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 12 May 2023
• Lance spent the first two seasons of his career with the Niners but was abruptly traded to the Cowboys in exchange for a fourth-round draft pick in late August.
  — Chantz Martin, Fox News, 4 Oct. 2023
• People who are in parts of the country exposed to total eclipse might notice that birds will abruptly stop chirping.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2024
• As if to complete the effect, the music often cuts off abruptly mid-scene, a technique that leaves you feeling bereft and unmoored.
  — Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 3 May 2024
• The Batavia fireworks show that was abruptly canceled on the Fourth of July has been rescheduled for a new date in August, officials said.
  — Megan Jones, Chicago Tribune, 12 July 2023
• The meeting ended abruptly, and James did not tell school officials that their son had a gun, according to the Detroit Free Press.
  — Lindsay Kimble, Peoplemag, 15 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 28 May 2024