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"Abrupt" in a Sentence (21 examples)
There is a fine line between speech that is terse and to the point and speech that is too abrupt.
Bill's abrupt manner causes him to be misunderstood.
The car made an abrupt turn.
The car came to an abrupt stop.
The policeman was rather abrupt with me.
I was charmed with it, adopted it, dropped my abrupt contradiction and positive argumentation, and put on the humble inquirer and doubter.
I was amazed at his abrupt resignation.
He made an abrupt departure.
She made an abrupt answer.
She looked puzzled at the abrupt question posed by a reporter.
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The party came to an abrupt end when the parents of our host arrived.
The cause of your abrupt departure.
There was something in this abrupt allusion to the treasured and hidden past, that at once shocked and silenced Norbourne. He was annoyed to find that his heart's sweetest secret was in the possession of one so little likely to keep it;...
'Is it a slickstone?' she asks, and Maren snorts, an abrupt sound, bringing her hand up to her mouth.
With no great disparity between them in point of years, they were, in every other respect, as unlike and far removed from each other as two men could well be. The one was soft-spoken, delicately made, precise, and elegant; the other, a burly square-built man, negligently dressed, rough and abrupt in manner, stern, and, in his present mood, forbidding both in look and speech.
The abrupt style, which hath many breaches.
The mazy-running brook Forms a deep pool; this bank abrupt and high.
To the north the towering scree-strewn slopes of Saddleback begin to draw nearer as we start the abrupt descent towards Keswick.
Root oblong, blackish, nearly the thickness of the little finger, often growing obliquely; abrupt at the lower end, so as to appear as if bitten off, furnished with long whitish fibres.
Till death abrupts them.
Over the vast abrupt.
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