abruptly
IPA: ʌbrˈʌptɫi
adverb
- In an abrupt manner; without giving notice, or without the usual forms; suddenly; precipitously.
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Examples of "abruptly" in Sentences
- The pistil abruptly narrows at the throat.
- He abruptly left after the end of the tour.
- All this abruptly ends by the end of the month.
- On the next day the productivity dropped abruptly.
- The lamina is abruptly attenuate towards the base.
- In 589 the course of the war was abruptly transformed.
- The crew die from the disease and the story ends abruptly.
- On the east the hill slopes less abruptly into the lower Palnis.
- The Durranis' rule ended abruptly in the beginning of the 18th century.
- The base of the lamina is gradually or abruptly contracted at the petiole.
- Then, as presiding officer, Cardin abruptly declared the Senate in recess until 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 5.
- An automobile, darting out from a cross-street, caused the driver of the wagon to pull in abruptly and apply the brake.
- But should either term abruptly gain attention in the media, Mr. Usman might refrain from bidding until the issue dies down.
- Supposedly because he resigned abruptly from the shadowy government outfit he worked for, and The Powers That Be wanted to know why.
- Mellon, who sued her mother for £5m in a dispute over Jimmy Choo shares after her father Tom's death in 2004, left the label abruptly in November last year.
- J.nnifer Lopez's split from Sony Music isn't quite as amicable as she wants you to think: evidently the label abruptly dropped J. Lo because of recent flops.
- Not until Mister Haggin abruptly picked him up under one arm and stepped into the sternsheets of the waiting whaleboat, did Jerry dream that anything untoward was to happen to him.
- A part of the landscape is an interesting phenomenon; in amongst the endless fields, you will find the occasional lonely hill, rising abruptly from the earth and coming to a broad flat top ... utterly alien in that flat land, and upon reflection, very hard to explain.
- See also the Sages who noted that the Hebrews had sunken to the lowest levels of the sexually and morally depraved Egyptian culture — having entered “49 of the 50 gates of impurity”, and that the reason they were taken out so abruptly is the danger that had they remained any longer, they would have sunken past the level of being able to be redeemend — as indeed 80% of them already had (seeRashi).