We talked for over an hour about why Richard had awakened so abruptly.

Yet, until he'd awakened so abruptly, there'd been no indication that a second person knew of the stone.

The flames in the fireplace had burned low when she awakened abruptly a few hours later.

During the night, he awakens abruptly from a dream of a deer and a wolf.

Sometime during the night I was awakened abruptly by a jab on my shoulder.

It was as if he'd been abruptly awakened, only to behold something which he could not fully grasp.

To step outside the church today, back into the twentieth century, is to awaken abruptly to our modern 'sophistication'.

After sleeping for about five hours, Nicole had awakened abruptly, temporarily uncertain where she was.

Even though he had been abruptly awakened, he felt refreshed.

They are abruptly awakened by a prostitute ringing the doorbell.