Then, after only a century of prosperity, the Akkadian empire collapsed abruptly, for reasons that have been lost to history.

The front door collapsed abruptly in a heap of ash.

With the loss of 24,000 troops, Napoleon's military machine in Spain abruptly collapsed.

Plans for the film version of Carnival abruptly collapsed.

Had Communism collapsed abruptly, swift retribution would have been more likely.

You were looking at the ghost ogre, and then you abruptly collapsed.

She watched the flames for one moment, wooden-faced, then abruptly collapsed.

I held the lift until my arms collapsed abruptly.

He turned away, stumbled and abruptly collapsed full length on the thick carpets.

In 1973 this hotel abruptly collapsed, killing four residents.