Sudden
"Sudden" in a Sentence (18 examples)
Why are you telling me about hippos all of the sudden? I don't see the connection between that and your twelve red goldfishes.
The sudden increase of cars is causing a large number of traffic accidents every day.
A sudden illness prevented him from going there.
A sudden illness forced her to cancel her appointment.
A sudden illness prevented me from going to the station to meet him.
There was a sudden change in her tone.
Don't take that dramatic attitude all of a sudden.
All of a sudden the sky became overcast.
All of a sudden, large drops of rain began falling from the dark sky.
All of a sudden, three dogs appeared in front of us.
The sudden drop in temperature left everyone cold and confused.
From lightninges and tempeſtes, from plage, peſtilence, and famine, from battayle and murther, and from ſodayn death. / Good lord deliver us.
I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.
Never was such a sudden scholar made.
Thus these pious flourishes and colours, examined thoroughly, are like the apples of Asphaltis, appearing goodly to the sudden eye; but look well upon them, or at least but touch them, and they turn into cinders.
And if along with these should come The man I held as half-divine; Should strike a sudden hand in mine, And ask a thousand things of home; […] I should not feel it to be strange.
I have no joy of this contract to-night: / It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden;
Herbs of every leaf that sudden flowered.
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