Sentence examples for can be abrupt from inspiring English sources
Instead of supply and demand guiding the economy to equilibrium, adjustments can be abrupt.
We're caught inside Tom's skin — not always a comfortable place to be, since he can be abrupt and dislikable.
He is comfortable discussing policy but can be abrupt, even antiseptic, in situations where small talk is in order.
This one-act play can be abrupt and not totally credible at times, but it is thought-provoking (1 20).
However the removal (washing out, collapse etc) of infilling sediment to expose the sinkhole can be abrupt (it's a bit like Kerplunk).
The switch from orderly movement to a panic state can again be abrupt, and can lead to inefficient use of exits.
An edge in a Newman can be biting, abrupt, faint, assertive.
I think professionally he is full-on and can be very abrupt, but that's part of why he has been so good at what he's done.
Well, I say, you can be pretty abrupt – at Blackheath station, she shouted out after me that I was a "patronising git" … She laughs.
The threshold for mathematical problems being easy or hard to solve can be extremely abrupt.
