How to Use abruptly in a Sentence

abruptly

adverb
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  • She’s abruptly cut from her shift in favor of two younger workers.
    — Eric Andersson, People.com, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Thirty years ago, my aunt had been abruptly separated from her husband.
    — Lee Chang-Dong, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 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
  • But at the height of their whirlwind affair, Miko abruptly vanished.
    — Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 5 Dec. 2024
  • 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

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