All 32 Uses of
abrupt
in
Dune
- The old woman's words abruptly lost their special sharpness for Paul.†
Book 1
- Abruptly, he stiffened, whirled with mustache flopping over his purpled lips.†
Book 1
- Laughter was abrupt and too loud.†
Book 1
- A garble of noise crackled from the speaker, drowned in an abrupt override signal, then silence and the first voice: "Report by the numbers!†
Book 1
- Abruptly, the Duke stood up beside his trooper, spoke in a harsh tone of command: "Stay seated, everyone.†
Book 1
- His head lolled forward, and there was an abrupt, panting silence to the scene.†
Book 1
- Jessica looked down at the cup in her hand, abruptly dashed its contents across Idaho's face.†
Book 1
- Abruptly, head high, she turned and stalked off through the house to her rooms.†
Book 1
- Abruptly, Yueh saw himself as cast away in this place of destruction, spared nothing, given not the smallest pity.†
Book 1
- Abruptly, as though he had found a necessary key, Paul's mind climbed another notch in awareness.†
Book 1
- Abruptly, the sand around the two groups sprouted Fremen.†
Book 2
- The machine sounds abruptly hummed away to silence.†
Book 2
- It was cut off abruptly as though in embarrassment.†
Book 2
- Paul nodded, fighting an abrupt reluctance to move.†
Book 2
- And he realized with an abrupt sense of shock that he had been giving more and more reliance to prescient memory and it had weakened him for this particular emergency.†
Book 2
- The vortex began as an abrupt billowing that rattled the entire ship.†
Book 2
- Abruptly, with only the faintest lurch of warning, the left wing, weakened by the storm, twisted upward and in, slamming across the side of the 'thopter.†
Book 2
- Paul stopped abruptly on a rock shelf, steadied his mother as she stumbled into him.†
Book 2
- Abruptly, it straightened, stretched its head upward and with a single screech, leaped into the air and banked away overhead with its companions behind it.†
Book 2
- Abrupt fear shot through Jessica as her senses awakened to the tensions visible in the people gathered around Paul—the stiff movements, the ritual positions.†
Book 2
- In an abrupt and profound silence, Chani turned, stared at Paul.†
Book 2
- She felt an abrupt fear.†
Book 2
- It was not a large hall—perhaps forty meters long and half that in width—but false pillars along the sides had been shaped with an abrupt taper, and the ceiling had a subtle arch, all giving the illusion of much greater space.†
Book 2
- Into the abrupt silence, he stepped back two paces, raised the key and shouted.†
Book 2
- The troop stopped, and Paul sensed abrupt tension.†
Book 2
- Abruptly, he saw that the Fremen were staring at him, waiting.†
Book 2
- Like an abrupt revelation—the curtains whipped away—she realized she had become aware of a psychokinesthetic extension of herself.†
Book 2
- With abrupt decision, Paul...†
Book 3 *
- Jessica felt a constriction at her heart, an abrupt fear for Paul.†
Book 3
- In the abrupt silence, Paul heard the wind devils playing overhead — the front of the storm.†
Book 3
- The abrupt flicker-tightening of skin pressure told of a wide-area shield being activated.†
Book 3
- The Emperor's face was touched by an abrupt smile.†
Book 3
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