How to use "abruptly" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "abruptly" in popular movie and book plots

  • Before leaving, Jim tries to call Judy at her home, but the call is intercepted by her father who abruptly hangs up.  - Rebel Without a Cause
  • Valmont abruptly dismisses Tourvel with a terse excuse: "It is beyond my control".  - Dangerous Liaisons
  • Batista abruptly abdicates due to rebel advances; during the ensuing chaos, Michael, Fredo, and Roth separately escape to the United States.  - The Godfather Part II
  • He meets the camera crew to say farewell, but in the middle of reciting a poem he is abruptly shot dead by an off-camera gunman.  - Man Bites Dog (film)
  • As he thrusts the foil and advances, the background abruptly disappears, leaving a plain white screen.  - Duck Amuck
  • The film then jumps abruptly to war-torn Vietnam, whereS.  - The Deer Hunter
  • Stavros realizes that such a marriage would mean the end of his American dream and adamantly refuses, abruptly leaving the angry cousin.  - America America
  • Joan abruptly wakes from her trance, and is rescued by Stevens.  - Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
  • Richie then murders a woman at a traffic stop because she abruptly tells him to move the car.  - Out for Justice
  • Jake abruptly leaves school and finds a key in a littered vacant lot where grows a single red rose.  - The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands
  • The two are taken from the torturer's chamber shortly thereafter, as the King has abruptly taken ill and appears to be dying.  - Inversions (novel)
  • A modern-day historian, describing the Arthurian legends, is abruptly killed by a knight on horseback, triggering a police investigation.  - Monty Python and the Holy Grail
  • The sketch abruptly cuts to a historian in a television studio talking about the Vikings.  - Spam (Monty Python)
  • In a desperate moment, Huck is forced to hide the money in Wilks's coffin, which is abruptly buried the next morning.  - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  • Carmilla and Laura grow to be very close friends, but occasionally Carmilla's mood abruptly changes.  - Carmilla
  • Vornoff abruptly ends the conversation by hypnotically placing Janet back to sleep.  - Bride of the Monster

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