all of a sudden
Example Sentences
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“What happens when all of a sudden they have big gaps in their production?”
“My feelings toward the badger aside, this plan seems reckless, all of a sudden.”
From Literature
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“You think that you have it. Then all of a sudden, it’s like somebody pulls a rug out and says, ‘No, we’re changing it,’ and now it’s going to be this way now.
From Los Angeles Times
In Huerta’s case, critics just don’t buy how someone who carried Chávez’s torch decades after his death could all of a sudden supposedly turn on him.
From Los Angeles Times
“Middle Americans, all of a sudden, they are going to start learning more about peptides,” he said.
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