All 8 Uses of
abrupt
in
Light in August
- Then she stops, not abruptly, yet with utter completeness, her jaw stilled in midchewing, a bitten cracker in her hand and her face lowered a little and her eyes, blank, as if she were listening to something very far away or so near as to be inside her.†
Chpt 1 *abruptly = suddenly and unexpectedly
- He walked without sound, moving in his tiny island of abruptly ceased insects.†
Chpt 10
- He sits up abruptly, the chair creaking beneath him.†
Chpt 17
- She looks on while Mrs. Armstid at the stove clashes the metal lids and handles the sticks of wood with the abrupt savageness of a man.†
Chpt 1
- But the room was filled with flight and abrupt consternation, as though people had fled it recently and suddenly and in fear.†
Chpt 14
- Which reminds me—" Again he made that abrupt, mulelike, back-looking movement of the head.†
Chpt 18
- Again she heard that faint, abrupt sound as he jerked his head up and back.†
Chpt 18
- You see before the crash, in the abrupt red glare the horses with wide eyes and nostrils in tossing heads, sweatstained; the gleam of metal, the white gaunt faces of living scarecrows who have not eaten all they wanted at one time since they could remember; perhaps some of them had already dismounted, perhaps one or two had already entered the henhouse.†
Chpt 20
Definitions:
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(1)
(abrupt as in: an abrupt change) sudden and unexpected
or (less commonly): characterized by sudden changes or at a steep angle -
(2)
(abrupt as in: she is abrupt) rude or unfriendly because of using too few words or moving too quickly