All 17 Uses of
abrupt
in
The War of the Worlds
- This smoke (or flame, perhaps, would be the better word for it) was so bright that the deep blue sky overhead and the hazy stretches of brown common towards Chertsey, set with black pine trees, seemed to darken abruptly as these puffs arose, and to remain the darker after their dispersal.†
Chpt 1.5
- Now it was as if something turned over, and the point of view altered abruptly.†
Chpt 1.7
- When I saw how deadly white her face was, I ceased abruptly.†
Chpt 1.7
- "Ain't they got any necks, then?" said a third, abruptly—a little, contemplative, dark man, smoking a pipe.†
Chpt 1.9
- The heavy firing that had broken out while we were driving down Maybury Hill ceased as abruptly as it began,
Chpt 1.10 *abruptly = suddenly and unexpectedly
- Then abruptly she turned and went in, leaving my cousins side by side wishing me good hap.†
Chpt 1.10
- At first I regarded little but the road before me, and then abruptly my attention was arrested by something that was moving rapidly down the opposite slope of Maybury Hill.†
Chpt 1.10
- Then abruptly he sat down before the table, put his head on his arms, and began to sob and weep like a little boy, in a perfect passion of emotion, while I, with a curious forgetfulness of my own recent despair, stood beside him, wondering.†
Chpt 1.11
- I asked abruptly.†
Chpt 1.13
- He spoke abruptly, looking vacantly away from me.†
Chpt 1.13
- "What is that flicker in the sky?" he asked abruptly.†
Chpt 1.13
- The porters told him that several remarkable telegrams had been received in the morning from Byfleet and Chertsey stations, but that these had abruptly ceased.†
Chpt 1.14
- Up the street came galloping a closed carriage, bursting abruptly into noise at the corner, rising to a clattering climax under the window, and dying away slowly in the distance.†
Chpt 1.14
- After a time, and before they reached the sinking cloud bank, the warships turned northward, and then abruptly went about and passed into the thickening haze of evening southward.†
Chpt 1.17
- Abruptly the right interpretation dawned upon my mind.†
Chpt 2.1
- Presently, with an abrupt click, it gripped something—I thought it had me!†
Chpt 2.4
- The sentence ended abruptly.†
Chpt 2.9
Definition:
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(abrupt as in: an abrupt change) sudden and unexpected
or (less commonly): characterized by sudden changes or at a steep angle