Sentence examples for there were abrupt from inspiring English sources
At the peaks of both magnetic storms there were abrupt afternoon evening decreases in the ionospheric F2-layer critical frequency (foF2).
There were abrupt chirps and swoops from keyboards and sampler, while guitar lines flipped into distortion and reverb or deliberately strayed into dissonance.
Additionally, evidence for spillover was limited, as there were abrupt changes in assemblage structure at fynbos/vineyard boundaries.
Above ~100 GPa, there were abrupt increases in the P-V S gradients (dV S /dP) at 130 GPa in Al2O3-poor glass and at 116 GPa in Al2O3-rich glass.
Tamahori was concerned with the demo since it did not appear expressive to him and there were abrupt endings.
Shucking a scallop can be jarring aesthetically, since there are abrupt changes between beautiful and ugly.
There are abrupt jumps from this year to that and back again.
Within a single movie, there are abrupt shifts from documentary to fiction, from color to black and white.
There are abrupt starts and stops, but the slippery transitions, a staple of Mr. Gordon's work, are all immaculately choreographed.
On Norman Rush's "Mating": "The novel has the air at times of a once fatter man whose thinner frame is now making his skin sag a bit: there are abrupt transitions and sudden deposits of information".
