Sentence examples for directions abruptly from inspiring English sources

Watch a recent highlight video: although he changes directions abruptly, he is not explosive.

At a news conference on Wednesday afternoon, Sheriff Terry Maketa of El Paso County said that erratic wind conditions had caused the fire to switch directions abruptly, and that it was expected to grow by at least 3,000 acres.

But it turns out that speed is not the secret to their prodigious hunting skills: a novel study of how cheetahs chase prey in the wild shows that it is their agility — their skill at leaping sideways, changing directions abruptly and slowing down quickly — that gives those antelope such bad odds.

For example, the paths of patients 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17 change directions abruptly coincident with changes in clinical status and concern for VAP or sepsis (see Figure 6A inset).

He lifts his partner overhead, spins and leans back on his wheels, changes direction abruptly, tumbles to the ground and pulls himself back up.

Check how easy it is to move in a tight space, do a complete about-face, tip backwards to mount kerbs, and change direction abruptly.

Following fixation, the target moved horizontally until it reached ±15°, where it reversed direction abruptly and moved to the opposite side.

So, for example, the software knows that walkers move more slowly than bikers of either variety, but also that pedestrians can change direction abruptly.

But the market reversed direction abruptly on Thursday and posted its biggest gain in months on Friday, leading all Asian markets, apparently on hopes that the nascent economic recovery in the United States is gaining strength.

To master this trick, just move your body in one direction, abruptly stop, jerking your body into that position -- this is called "locking" your body into a new pose.

What makes a cowlick "singular" is that a variable (the hair's direction) changes abruptly and discontinuously there.