Sentence examples for abrupt reply from inspiring English sources

"I'm not interested," came the abrupt reply.

After nearly bursting and showing a coworker the photo of Lily I planned to present my stylist with, she replied with an abrupt and concerned, "No!

His replies were often curt and abrupt.

Nearly every time I asked one of the traffic people to assume the role of the great vehicle arranger in the sky, remote-controlling each of us bottleneck drivers as if we were so many video-game characters, the reply went as follows: FIRST, EVERYBODY REMAINS UNRUFFLED, without abrupt changes of lane or speed, as the lane-drop comes into view.

"I mean in thirty minutes," I replied, and then, because I sometimes hide my shyness behind an abrupt manner, I headed back across the street, turning to announce that we were having spaghetti carbonara.

Very abrupt," she says.

"It was very abrupt.

He was very abrupt.

An abrupt stop.

• Abrupt changes in air pressure.

I became abrupt with customers.