SUDDENLY in a Sentence

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375 example sentences for SUDDENLY, such as:
1. Then suddenly he sprang up again.
2. A dark cloud suddenly blotted out the sun.
3. The animal raised its head, suddenly alert.
4. The car suddenly fetched up before a big tree.
5. The car veered suddenly to avoid running into the dog.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of SUDDENLY
suddenly
 ad.  on impulse; without premeditation
 ad.  happening unexpectedly
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  "I told you I ain't the kind to be afraid" she tossed back, almost indifferently; and suddenly she began to walk on with a rapid step.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
2  He became suddenly conscious that he was looking at Mattie while Zeena talked to him, and with an effort he turned his eyes to his wife.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
3  "I suppose it was Ruth and Ned," she said in a low voice, as though he had suddenly touched on something grave.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
4  His wife's retort was like a knife-cut across the sinews and he felt suddenly weak and powerless.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
5  She was so small and weak-looking that it wrung his heart; but suddenly she lifted her head and looked straight at him.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
6  Mattie suddenly drew her arms out of the steaming water.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
7  That was all; but all their intercourse had been made up of just such inarticulate flashes, when they seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
8  As he raised himself he suddenly felt Mattie close to him among the shadows.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
9  Then suddenly he sprang up again.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
10  But suddenly his wife's face, with twisted monstrous lineaments, thrust itself between him and his goal, and he made an instinctive movement to brush it aside.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
11  Mrs. Hale drew a deep breath, as though her memory were eased of its long burden, and she had no more to say; but suddenly an impulse of complete avowal seized her.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
12  The whitewashed brick plantation house seemed an island set in a wild red sea, a sea of spiraling, curving, crescent billows petrified suddenly at the moment when the pink-tipped waves were breaking into surf.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
13  Then, last summer at a political speaking in a grove of oak trees at Jonesboro, they both suddenly became aware of Scarlett O'Hara.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
14  Scarlett, sitting on the stump, thought of those words which had made her so happy, and suddenly they took on another meaning, a hideous meaning.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
15  She rose suddenly from her chair at the sound of creaking wheels in the driveway and then sank down again as they went on around the house to the back yard.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
Example Sentence: (165 in 12 pages)
1  She suddenly held up a small, bony finger and pointed across the room.
2  The animal raised its head, suddenly alert.
3  When tomorrow turns in today, yesterday, and someday that no moreimportant in your memory, we suddenly realize that we r pushed forwardby time.
4  The car veered suddenly to avoid running into the dog.
5  The hunter had to feign death when he suddenly found out that a bear was coming toward him.
6  The car suddenly fetched up before a big tree.
7  Bianguai people suddenly started a gentle love, love when people understand the deterioration of the niggling over.
8  Campaign leaders were caught flat-footed when the opinion polls suddenly started to swing the other way.
9  She was taken into hospital last week when her condition suddenly deteriorated.
10  I had to brake suddenly, and the car behind ran into me.
11  You scared me out of my mind, coming up behind me suddenly like that.
12  It's safest to remain a good distance behind, in case the car in front suddenly stops.
13  He suddenly thought of the shop standing in the corner of the street.
14  A dark cloud suddenly blotted out the sun.
15  I roused up from deep sleep when the storm came suddenly.