SUDDENLY in a Sentence

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375 example sentences for SUDDENLY, such as:

1. Then suddenly he sprang up again.
2. The problem was suddenly thrown into sharp focus.
3. In hot weather lettuces can suddenly run to seed.
4. Water suddenly squirted out from a hole in the pipe.
5. Mattie suddenly drew her arms out of the steaming water.

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 Meanings and Examples of SUDDENLY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
suddenly
 ad.  happening unexpectedly
 ad.  quickly and without warning
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  "I told you I ain't the kind to be afraid" she tossed back, almost indifferently; and suddenly she began to walk on with a rapid step.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
2  He became suddenly conscious that he was looking at Mattie while Zeena talked to him, and with an effort he turned his eyes to his wife.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
3  "I suppose it was Ruth and Ned," she said in a low voice, as though he had suddenly touched on something grave.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
4  His wife's retort was like a knife-cut across the sinews and he felt suddenly weak and powerless.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
5  She was so small and weak-looking that it wrung his heart; but suddenly she lifted her head and looked straight at him.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
6  Mattie suddenly drew her arms out of the steaming water.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
7  That was all; but all their intercourse had been made up of just such inarticulate flashes, when they seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
8  As he raised himself he suddenly felt Mattie close to him among the shadows.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
9  Then suddenly he sprang up again.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
10  But suddenly his wife's face, with twisted monstrous lineaments, thrust itself between him and his goal, and he made an instinctive movement to brush it aside.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
11  Mrs. Hale drew a deep breath, as though her memory were eased of its long burden, and she had no more to say; but suddenly an impulse of complete avowal seized her.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
12  The whitewashed brick plantation house seemed an island set in a wild red sea, a sea of spiraling, curving, crescent billows petrified suddenly at the moment when the pink-tipped waves were breaking into surf.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
13  Then, last summer at a political speaking in a grove of oak trees at Jonesboro, they both suddenly became aware of Scarlett O'Hara.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
14  Scarlett, sitting on the stump, thought of those words which had made her so happy, and suddenly they took on another meaning, a hideous meaning.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
15  She rose suddenly from her chair at the sound of creaking wheels in the driveway and then sank down again as they went on around the house to the back yard.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
Example Sentence: (165 in 12 pages)
16  When tomorrow turns in today, yesterday, and someday that no more important in your memory, we suddenly realize that we are pushed forward by time.
17  A car suddenly mounted the pavement to avoid a vehicle coming in the opposite direction.
18  A person walking down the street, suddenly remind of lonely I love you.
19  After working as an employee for many years, Bill suddenly decided to strike out and open his own shop.
20  The flight recorder should help to establish why the plane suddenly crashed.
21  I was only teasing him and suddenly he lashed out and hit me in the face.
22  Just suddenly found lengnuanzizhi is how to let person feel sorry.
23  Life was suddenly full of possibilities, not to mention a few unexpected surprises.
24  When I got glasses suddenly the whole world came into focus.
25  The problem was suddenly thrown into sharp focus.
26  She took a mouthful of food and then suddenly spat it out.
27  There suddenly rushed into the room a group of small children.
28  I was suddenly overcome with an uncontrollable desire to hit him.
29  Water suddenly squirted out from a hole in the pipe.
30  In hot weather lettuces can suddenly run to seed.