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Example sentences for: abrupt

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By his abrupt switch to the side of relatively radical reform, the senator has opened up a gap in the middle of the debate.
This might be related to the abrupt changes that occur with manual turning, and pain associated with manual hand clapping on the chest wall.
It's a pretty abrupt departure, and she has no other job lined up, but who knows?
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."
If a big calf or steer was roped with one of these rawhide lariats attached solidly to the saddle horn, American style, and the roping horse came to an abrupt halt or sat back so that the roped animal hit the rope at a run, the lasso tended to stretch like a rubber band and then snap, possibly springing back to knock an eye out of the cowboy.