In an abrupt switch, a slavish seductiveness entered her voice.

He frowned at the sidewalk, as though this abrupt conversational switch to the subject of Goldfish confused him.

The abrupt switch of topics gave me a momentary pause.

Moreover, the smiley face has had an unusually abrupt switch from being used sincerely to ironically.

By his abrupt switch to the side of relatively radical reform, the senator has opened up a gap in the middle of the debate.

The abrupt switch had me off-balance, no great achievement the way I was feeling.

Even for the ardeur it was an abrupt switch.

Her abrupt switch in tactics had its desired effect.

The still alive part of his dying brain observed this abrupt switch in reactions with detached interest.

Mr President, Russia has made an abrupt switch from communism to capitalism.