How to Use abruptly in a Sentence

abruptly

adverb
  • The seabed drops abruptly to a plateau.
    — Literary Hub, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Then one of them stopped abruptly.
    — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Sep. 2025
  • The livestream then abruptly cut off.
    — Becca Longmire, PEOPLE, 16 Apr. 2026
  • The video ends abruptly when the drone hits the stash.
    — Svitlana Vlasova, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Words could come out too abruptly or not quick enough.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 10 June 2026
  • Then, the livestream abruptly cuts off.
    — Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Her team rushed to help as the song abruptly cut off.
    — Edward Segarra, USA Today, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Her team rushed to help as the song abruptly cut off.
    — Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 28 Sep. 2025
  • But that all stopped abruptly once Kim was gone.
    — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 12 Apr. 2026
  • The worm abruptly halted as a fish grabbed it and ran.
    — Hank Bradshaw, Outdoor Life, 24 June 2026
  • The call ended abruptly with a loud noise.
    — ABC News, 27 Mar. 2026
  • But what could change the climate of the whole ocean so abruptly?
    — Lisa Wells, Harper’s Magazine , 13 Mar. 2023
  • This week, someone left the group chat abruptly.
    — Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 23 Feb. 2026
  • What sounds like screeching tires is heard as the truck abruptly stops.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Oct. 2025
  • One bad game and even the best teams’ seasons can abruptly come to an end.
    — Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2024
  • In the first five hours of their trek, Tony abruptly stops and drops to the ground.
    — Mark Peikert, IndieWire, 29 Sep. 2024
  • Then the trend abruptly reversed.
    — Aparna Soni, The Conversation, 13 Apr. 2026
  • The fun messages stopped abruptly.
    — Hannah Fingerhut, Chicago Tribune, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Those facts were abruptly ignored.
    — Time, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Samberg abruptly cuts them off by singing about his life story.
    — Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Feb. 2026
  • The case was instead abruptly closed after a guilty plea.
    — Caroline Silva, AJC.com, 13 May 2026
  • Then, the posts abruptly shifted.
    — Leah Willingham, Fortune, 7 Jan. 2026
  • And then the wind, as fickle as the gods, abruptly shifted in front of them.
    — David Grann, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The call was abruptly hung up, and two return phone calls went unanswered.
    — Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 12 Jan. 2026
  • The way she was taken from us, so young, so abruptly, broke a lot of people's hearts.
    — Natasha Dye, Peoplemag, 10 Mar. 2023
  • In her last year of college, my daughter abruptly came out as a lesbian.
    — Eric Thomas, Sun Sentinel, 25 Apr. 2026
  • She was abruptly fired the following week.
    — Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Much of this has now been abruptly taken away, or at least disrupted.
    — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 18 June 2026
  • The plea abruptly ended what would have likely been a lengthy trial.
    — Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 25 Apr. 2025
  • This can also mean the calves are weaned abruptly and are fed limited amounts of milk.
    — Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 14 Feb. 2025

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