all of a sudden

Example Sentences

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"We were recording in an office and all of a sudden the table moved and we all looked at each other," Ruiz told AFP.

From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026

“We’ve been having this conversation for 50 years. Why is it all of a sudden a problem now?”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026

“You grew up watching a guy every day on TV for 10 years, and then all of a sudden, he’s a teammate. It’s pretty cool.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2026

“People were playing memory, and then all of a sudden they were playing semicap, and then they were playing optical, and then power settings, and then CPUs,” he said.

From MarketWatch • May 11, 2026

Riemann merged projective geometry with the complex numbers, and all of a sudden lines became circles, circles became lines, and zero and infinity became the poles on a globe full of numbers.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife