"abruptly" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- As it surfaced abruptly, the submarine's steel rudder, designed to break through Arctic ice floes, knifed through the Japanese vessel's hull, sinking it within minutes.
- Commander Waddle was in charge of the Greeneville, an attack submarine, when it abruptly surfaced beneath a Japanese fisheries training vessel.
- The habitual energy that had been lacking in her all day abruptly surfaced in a torrent of passion.
- "Without the others' knowledge," the report said, Best abruptly surfaced.
- The crying in her mind abruptly surfaced and she jerked her left hand up to cover her eyes, trying to repress a sob.
- The moment he disconnected most of his consciousness from Chell's running discourse, the question that surfaced abruptly was "Why now?"
- He surfaced abruptly, shaking his head to clear it and gulping in air like a diver down too long.
- A person who performed some routine office for an indefinite period, then abruptly surfaced as a spy or agent at a critical occasion.
- Taken aback by this implication of honest confidence, Owen Davies surfaced abruptly from the pool of righteousness that had threatened to swallow him.
- After the periscope check, the submarine descended again and then surfaced abruptly in an emergency drill, colliding with one of those contacts, which turned out to be the Ehime Maru, a training vessel.
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