Sentence examples for sometimes abruptly from inspiring English sources

New landscapes replace the traditional ones gradually or sometimes abruptly.

The views along the river changed frequently, sometimes abruptly.

Then, sometimes abruptly, the queasy reservations veer into disgust and rejection.

And obviously this is possible; people change their friends often, sometimes abruptly.

THROUGHOUT history new technologies have revolutionised warfare, sometimes abruptly, sometimes only gradually: think of the chariot, gunpowder, aircraft, radar and nuclear fission.

That unpredictability is typical of his quirky, asymmetrical songs, which intensify as they go along and sometimes abruptly break off (as in "Amie").

This is not especially unusual -- one liability of Web communication is that people sometimes disappear abruptly.

Sometimes he abruptly ended our conversation, ran to his bedroom, and closed the door, and I let myself out.

But plans and attitudes change, sometimes quite abruptly, and although the surveys are useful tools they are not clear and reliable guides to the future.

Elsewhere many bilingual Khoisan speakers have tended to shift rapidly to the dominant language, thus ceasing transmission of the mother tongue to children and leaving it to contract and die, sometimes quite abruptly.

"Climate-change experts, like Dahl-Jensen, say it's not so simple: the climate is always changing, sometimes very abruptly, so the last thing that mankind should be doing is adding its own forcing actions — like pumping unprecedented amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.