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Example sentences for: abrupt

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The Los Angeles Times and Washington Post lead with the House Judiciary Committee's abrupt decision Thursday to drop (after only two days) President Clinton's 1996 campaign finances from the areas it will consider in its impeachment inquiry.
And it has this for quantum jump (or leap ): an abrupt transition in an atom or molecule from one quantum state to another.
These abrupt and far-reaching changes on an island proud of its traditional ways brought strain and conflict.
Consequently, he has written an extremely strange book: In reading it, you are subjected to changes in personality as abrupt and jarring as nasty little electric shocks administered to the base of your spine.
Degas' pragmatic association of photography with death recalls Roland Barthes' far more melodramatic one: "Photography may correspond to the intrusion, in our modern society, of an asymbolic Death, outside of religion, outside of ritual, a kind of abrupt dive into literal Death."