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suddenly
adverb as in unexpectedly
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aback, all at once, asudden, forthwith, on spur of moment, sudden, unanticipatedly, unaware, unawares, without warning
Example Sentences
Because you’re supposed to be in Los Angeles and suddenly you’ve got a kookaburra in the background.
To recap, for all of July, Facebook suddenly and automatically enabled Limited Data Use in advertisers’ accounts.
In this case, the wave-function can change, suddenly and instantaneously, everywhere.
Chaos ensued, as hundreds of thousands of migrant workers were suddenly stranded in the cities where they worked, bereft of any source of income, with nowhere to shelter in place.
Just as we were about to leave, Cameron suddenly looked me straight in the eye and asked me the first question that wasn’t related to technology.
The plan is to stretch it out as long as possible, then probably forget about it, and then suddenly remember it.
And suddenly, we were able to come up with all these scenes for it.
The gym—a fragile collective of human ecology at the best of times—has suddenly become even more tense.
I fall back into a dream and then suddenly there is a tapping on the window just above my bed.
“Wait…” Suddenly a huge, graceful black marlin leaps out of the water, sending a shower of water ten feet high.
"There's just one thing I'd like to ask, if you don't mind," said Cynthia, coming suddenly out of a brown study.
Suddenly, however, he became aware of a small black spot far ahead in the very middle of the unencumbered track.
The night wore on, and the clock downstairs was striking the hour of two when she suddenly awakened.
We were in the midst of it, and having a merry time, when the door suddenly opened and Liszt appeared.
Then Jimmy remembered suddenly that he had to meet Grandfather Mole over there.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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