All 49 Uses of
abrupt
in
The Sunlight Dialogues
- "That's all over," Clumly said abruptly.†
Chpt 1abruptly = suddenly and unexpectedly
- Abruptly, awake and trembling from the cold, he put the bottle back and turned to go up.†
Chpt 1
- A car shot past them and abruptly slowed down, no doubt noticing that they were police.†
Chpt 1
- "Get out of my house or by Jesus I'll call—" She broke off abruptly and laughed, her voice electric.†
Chpt 1 *
- He got up abruptly, awkwardly, to prove to himself he was still in control, and went over to stand at the window, bent-backed, and took his glasses off again and held them behind him.†
Chpt 1
- Abruptly, before he knew he would do it, he said, "Wait here, Boyle," and hurried back to the car.†
Chpt 1
- Abruptly, again almost before he knew what he was thinking, Clumly strode down the hall to get the cell keys.†
Chpt 1
- He stopped abruptly, put his fists on his hips, and glared at the Indians.†
Chpt 2
- As abruptly as it had started the singing stopped, and the bearded man yelled, "Excellent, mein herr!" and clapped his hands together smartly.†
Chpt 2
- Abruptly, his son slapped his knee and bent forward, preparing to get up.†
Chpt 3
- He dialed, waited, looking up fiercely at the shabby rosette in the center of the ceiling, then sat forward abruptly, slightly crossing his eyes to watch the receiver, and shouted into it.†
Chpt 3
- He said abruptly "Funny thing, Will Jr's coming to see you just when he did."†
Chpt 3
- Abruptly, he clenched his fists.†
Chpt 3
- He was the same with, for instance, the mailman if he saw him on a Saturday morning: "You're late with the bills again, ain't you?" he'd say, as if belligerently; but then when the mailman's moment of uncertainty had passed, or had stretched out long enough, Miller would grin, abruptly and warmly, and cock his eyebrows, and he and the mailman would laugh.†
Chpt 5
- The roof fell shimmering away then abruptly broke off, and his gaze plummeted on down to the small round rocks far below in the barnyard, fenceposts like toothpicks, hoof-prints filled with water reflecting the sky.†
Chpt 5
- Clumly turned away abruptly to keep his twitching face from Kozlowski's eyes.†
Chpt 5
- Abruptly, surprising himself, Clumly said, "What are you getting at?"†
Chpt 5
- Abruptly, the minister shook Clumly's hand, then put his hat on, ready to leave.†
Chpt 5
- Then finally they'd have parted, and after his laughter at his own last joke, the Mayor would have returned to his office, abruptly sober, grim, and would have gotten his suitcoat from the closet next to Wittaker's office.†
Chpt 5
- The sidewalk on LaCrosse was old and broken, and here and there it buckled abruptly, throwing one slightly off balance.†
Chpt 6
- Then, abruptly, she turned up the walk to go in.†
Chpt 6
- They both laughed, and Esther smiled tentatively, feeling shy, then abruptly joined the laughter.†
Chpt 6
- Twice he turned abruptly, believing there was a man behind him on the stairway that led up to the balcony and, beyond that, the steeple.†
Chpt 7
- He reached out abruptly and turned the file over to keep himself from staring at the name.†
Chpt 8
- "I need a beer," he said, then laughed abruptly.†
Chpt 8
- Abruptly, on an impulse, he slipped his left hand under her armpit and lifted her off the ground and shook her hard, meaning it for love.†
Chpt 8
- (Abruptly, rapidly, as if shocked by what he is saying): I'll tell you the truth†
Chpt 11
- She said abruptly, firmly, "Nick, you must turn yourself in.†
Chpt 12
- Abruptly he stomped away, curling his toes as he raised his feet.†
Chpt 12
- "Indian Reservation!" he said abruptly.†
Chpt 13
- Freeman moved toward it, the Indian boy a little behind him, then stopped abruptly.†
Chpt 13
- He turned then, abruptly, as if to leave.†
Chpt 13
- Abruptly, with a stubborn, determined look, she crosses to his desk and picks up the sheaf of papers on top of the pile, in the middle of the mess.†
Chpt 14
- "Now this birdbath here," he said abruptly, stopping and extending his arm toward it, "came over here from England over seventy years ago.†
Chpt 14
- Also, his wet trudge home had abruptly brought the house back to normal.†
Chpt 17
- He sat down on the bed abruptly and hunted through his bathrobe pockets for a Kleenex.†
Chpt 17
- He studied the face gray-orange and still as lead cooling in a smelter's mold, Kleppmann bending toward the fire, looking in, and decided abruptly that he, too, could wait.†
Chpt 18
- Will remembered again, abruptly.†
Chpt 18
- Clumly paused at the window and scowled, then abruptly went to the door and called Figlow.†
Chpt 19
- He said abruptly, "Come with me.†
Chpt 19
- Abruptly and irrelevantly Clumly said, "You don't approve of shock treatments, then?"†
Chpt 19
- As for his mother—" He stopped abruptly and mopped his forehead.†
Chpt 19
- Abruptly, the boy jerked away from him and returned to his swing.†
Chpt 19
- Abruptly, the Sunlight Man moved to the chair.†
Chpt 21
- Abruptly, full of a confused sense of pity and anger, Chief Clumly stood up.†
Chpt 21
- He frowned, wrestling with some problem, then abruptly laughed a little wildly.†
Chpt 21
- Abruptly, as if coming to himself, he nodded.†
Chpt 22
- Then, just as he was about to get in, he changed his mind, turned abruptly, and strode back to where his mother stood watching.†
Chpt 22
- Then, abruptly, Clumly sat down and scowled.†
Chpt 24
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