How to Use abruptly in a Sentence

abruptly

adverb

• But then, in the past day or two, the tone abruptly shifted.
  — Jayson Stark, The Athletic, 14 Feb. 2025
• This can also mean the calves are weaned abruptly and are fed limited amounts of milk.
  — Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 14 Feb. 2025
• The wilderness scenes have some foundational issues to deal with as well, like the always awkward moment when a crash survivor who hasn’t done anything of note since the show began is abruptly thrust into prominence.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 14 Feb. 2025
• In their bid for the court to halt Mr. Trump's action, the challengers noted that hospitals around the country have abruptly halted medical care for transgender young people.
  — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 13 Feb. 2025
• In the first five hours of their trek, Tony abruptly stops and drops to the ground.
  — Mark Peikert, IndieWire, 29 Sep. 2024
• The door slid open abruptly and half a dozen men emerged.
  — Nicholas Daniloff, wsj.com, 4 Apr. 2023
• But what could change the climate of the whole ocean so abruptly?
  — Lisa Wells, Harper’s Magazine , 13 Mar. 2023
• And then the wind, as fickle as the gods, abruptly shifted in front of them.
  — David Grann, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
• 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 scuffle, the two boys abruptly fly out of the second-floor window.
  — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 25 Jan. 2025
• In the decade before, hundreds of young, healthy kids in the US abruptly felt their limbs go weak.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 5 Feb. 2024
• The way she was taken from us, so young, so abruptly, broke a lot of people's hearts.
  — Natasha Dye, Peoplemag, 10 Mar. 2023
• Zoe's, a Greek eatery in Harvard Square, closed abruptly last week.
  — Steph Solis, Axios, 16 July 2024
• Carlson was abruptly pushed out of Fox News on April 24.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 11 Dec. 2023
• No sooner had the anchor group joined Sever’s team on the far side of the squares than the snow abruptly stopped and drones were in the air again.
  — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
• The 10-year returns rose abruptly for hundreds of funds.
  — Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 14 July 2023
• Chapek was fired abruptly in November, and the board brought Iger in to replace him.
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2023
• The video cuts off abruptly and does not show the voter's final ballot.
  — Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 1 Nov. 2024
• The human driver then sped ahead of the robotaxi and braked abruptly in front of it.
  — Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2024
• The ad showed a 3-year-old girl in a New York City park counting petals on a daisy, then cut abruptly to a mushroom cloud.
  — Julia Sonenshein, The New Republic, 27 July 2023
• The sidewalk ends abruptly and drops straight into grass.
  — Spencer Norris, Sun Sentinel, 16 Feb. 2023
• On either end of the slump, the road ends abruptly, some of its crumble visible down the steep hill.
  — Iris Samuels, Anchorage Daily News, 16 July 2023
• Her file ends abruptly, with the Gestapo planning her arrest.
  — Laurie Marhoefer, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Sep. 2023
• She’s abruptly cut from her shift in favor of two younger workers.
  — Eric Andersson, People.com, 13 Dec. 2024
• But abruptly, the technician stopped pointing at the screen and left the room to get the obstetrician.
  — Elizabeth Cohen, CNN, 2 May 2023
• Slugs closed abruptly, in 1972, after the trumpeter Lee Morgan was shot and killed on the bandstand by his wife.
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024
• The meeting ended abruptly and their son remained in school.
  — Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 9 Apr. 2024
• Just then, my minder rounded the corner and the deckhand abruptly walked away.
  — Ian Urbina, TIME, 26 Oct. 2023
• But at the height of their whirlwind affair, Miko abruptly vanished.
  — Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 5 Dec. 2024
• The narrative breaks off abruptly with the birth of Ava’s mother, Laura.
  — Rhoda Feng, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 2 Mar 2025