all of a sudden
Example Sentences
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You don’t have to do much other than replace your normal Hellmann’s mayo and Dijon mustard with a bottle of Ayoh and all of a sudden you have a crunchy dill pickle-flavored turkey sandwich.
You’re not sure exactly what happened, but all of a sudden you truly are gone from this world.
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“Every generation feels like all of a sudden food is becoming an enormously prominent issue like it never was before,” says the 89-year-old nutritionist and New York University professor emerita.
But now, all of a sudden, it looked okay.
From Literature
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“I see there is a lot of experts all of a sudden that wanted to retire me or have retired me many times the last couple of years,” he said after beating Sinner.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.