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Definition
sudden and unexpected
- The men fell silent, piecing together the rumors of one giant bomb vaporizing a city and the abrupt end to the war.p. 224.8
abrupt = sudden and unexpected
- Lash folded abruptly, in evident pain.p. 36.1
- When Louie offered to fly on three engines if the lieutenant joined them, the lieutenant abruptly changed his mind.p. 62.3
- Then, abruptly, the downward motion stopped, and Louie was flung upward.p. 99.3
- Then, abruptly, the corporal swept forward, walking with chin high, chest puffed.p. 171.7
- As the POWs watched, a lone Japanese fighter raced up, then abruptly, startlingly, flew straight into a bomber, shattering and raining down on Tokyo Bay.p. 191.8
- Then, abruptly, the violence stopped.p. 220.3
- Late in his last lap, there was an abrupt slicing sensation in his ankle.p. 254.7
- Louie turned abruptly and walked away.p. 266.9
- Then she left abruptly, without paying her hotel bill.p. 272.6
There are no more uses of "abrupt" in Unbroken - adapted for young adults.
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