All 10 Uses of
abrupt
in
The Chrysalids
- She said, with anxious abruptness: 'What is it?†
Chpt 1
- I was abruptly perturbed — and considerably puzzled, too.†
Chpt 1
- Everything was abruptly bleak to the horizon, and beyond.†
Chpt 5
- Not even a wandering thought of difference crossed my mind concerning her until it abruptly happened…… We were harvesting.†
Chpt 9
- Abruptly, we were forced to consider some of the implications, and, young as we were, we could see enough of them to make us anxious.†
Chpt 10
- Then, abruptly, she projected her delight; it wiped out the whole thing and dazed us all again.†
Chpt 11
- A couple of miles further on the stretch of forest came to an abrupt end, and we found ourselves looking across a narrow, cultivated valley.†
Chpt 13 *
- It was pleasantly peaceful until Petra put one of her blinding communications so abruptly that I bit my tongue.†
Chpt 13
- Rosalind came in abruptly, as near to hysteria as I had known her.†
Chpt 15
- Petra cut her off, abruptly blotting everything with distress.†
Chpt 16
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