Synonym: dead, short, suddenly. Similar words: abrupt, rupture, disrupt, bankrupt, interrupt, bankruptcy, corruption, interruption. Meaning: [ə'brʌptlɪ] adv. quickly and without warning.
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(61) The deep rumbling beneath their feet abruptly stopped, and the electrical discharges faded away.
(62) A brief mood of shapeless hysteria took hold of the claustrophobic young community, which ended abruptly with a short holiday.
(63) Their conversation stops abruptly when a scruffy man approaches the cash register, pulls out a gun and demands all the money.
(64) Some may have been in hiding, traumatized by the squealing that had filled the afternoon air and then quite abruptly ceased.
(65) Abruptly he jumped up and tore away the bedclothes, searching the rug on which he had lain.
(66) Her faint scream of shock was abruptly stifled by a hand clamped over her mouth.
(67) Then, as abruptly as it had pitched camp, the caravan moved on.
(68) Yeremi's stream of plasma ceased abruptly as his hand cramped within that fervid womb.
(69) A few miles further on we turned abruptly off the highway and the Range Rover sped into the desert leaving landmarks behind.
(70) Then he turned from her abruptly, fastened his seatbelt, and switched on the ignition key.
(71) The moon, a nail clipping on a black cloth, rises and as abruptly sets.
(72) At dawn on Saturday 6 February the eight-month lull was abruptly brought to an end.
(73) He regarded her for a moment and then seemed abruptly to relax.
(74) He stared into Johnny's face for several seconds, turned abruptly on his heel and strode away without looking back.
(75) The project he was involved with were abruptly terminated in 1994 by the health ministry.
(76) Abruptly he sat up, away from her, and Leith knew he had gone off any idea of making love to her.
(77) In these ancient, mountainous regions - the Alps and the Carpathians - the City stopped abruptly, edging the wilderness.
(78) Then, abruptly, she was released, falling back against her pillows with a gasp.
(79) It ceased abruptly and her gaze left his to wander down his body, stopping only to rest upon his nakedness.
(80) Then abruptly I am back in real time, bobbing up and down in the river, powerless against its current.
(81) The dust storm, which may have begun very abruptly, fades very slowly away.
(82) She sprawled flat on the hard wooden floor, her cry abruptly silenced as all the air rushed out of her body.
(83) More than one underwent a major breakdown after his relationship with Minton was abruptly terminated.
(84) She went back to Milton abruptly, instead of moving permanently to New York as she had been planning to do.
(85) The men had gone to bed in a rare mood of good cheer but were abruptly awakened in the early morning hours. Sentencedict.com
(86) Gradually developing hypertonicity produces less symptoms than that developing abruptly.
(87) For a second Robby just stood there watching, all color abruptly gone from his cheeks.
(88) Abruptly the full moon passed across the gaping wound in their roof and no longer shone directly into the room.
(89) The electoral process stopped abruptly with the death of the man most likely to be prime minister.
(90) A text of Modestinus also ends abruptly with the remark that the judge will ensure that the testator's instructions are enforced.
More similar words: abrupt, rupture, disrupt, bankrupt, interrupt, bankruptcy, corruption, interruption, brush, brutal, brutally, cerebrum, brusquely, scrub brush, abroad, fabric, abrade, abreast, abridge, macabre, up to, abrasion, abrogate, abridged, bric-a-brac, fabricate, gear up, stir up, tear up, up to now.