Sentence examples for abruptly realize from inspiring English sources

THE feeling is familiar: you are savoring the last of a leisurely Sunday lunch or a long walk in the park when you abruptly realize that your weekend will be over in a matter of hours.

Nobody in the world, I abruptly realized, knew where I was.

Trivers abruptly realizes he is seeing his reflection in a store window: "Real me is seen as ugly me by self-­deceived me".

Both actresses are in top form as Ms. Emery blossoms in maternal confidence and righteousness before abruptly realizing she's gone one step too far.

I abruptly realized I was shouting at the officer on the other end of the phone.

I abruptly realized I was guilty of this, and I began noticing it too: other women apologizing in troves.

(Work on the facility and its equipment was well along when DOE abruptly realized it would not be large enough to accommodate needed machinery, forcing a costly redesign and lengthy delays).

Abruptly, Mr. Condon realized he hadn't eaten all day.

The proverbial asset bubble then tends to burst abruptly when investors realize there is not a rational basis for the investment craze, pushing prices into a tailspin that can send tremors throughout the economy.

When Carter created Verdana for Microsoft, he had to create a face that would print handsomely and also look good on the screen… In 1960, Carter travelled to New York where, he says, "I was made abruptly and forcefully to realize that I knew nothing".

The conditions were exquisite but dodgy — a half metre of fresh snow warming in the sun — and my father, realizing abruptly that we were in a place we shouldn't have been (always this belated moment of recognition), decided that we would traverse, one at a time, to more moderately pitched terrain.