SUDDEN in a Sentence

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1. A sudden movement caught my eye.
2. The sudden jolt plunged her forward.
3. Again Ethan felt a sudden twinge of jealousy.
4. A sudden change of wind checked the forest fire.
5. The sudden increase in sales is easily explicable.

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 Meanings and Examples of SUDDEN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
sudden
 a.  happening without warning or in a short space of time
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  She turned on him with a sudden flash of indignation.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
2  Then, with a sudden dart of irony, he wondered if, when their turn came, the same epitaph would be written over him and Zeena.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
3  Again Ethan felt a sudden twinge of jealousy.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
4  "Here, give them to me," he said in a voice of sudden authority.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
5  The sudden heat of his tone made her colour mount again, not with a rush, but gradually, delicately, like the reflection of a thought stealing slowly across her heart.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
6  The cat had jumped from Zeena's chair to dart at a mouse in the wainscot, and as a result of the sudden movement the empty chair had set up a spectral rocking.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
7  With the sudden perception of the point to which his madness had carried him, the madness fell and he saw his life before him as it was.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
8  Then she snatched her hands from his, threw her arms about his neck, and pressed a sudden drenched cheek against his face.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
9  Half-way down there was a sudden drop, then a rise, and after that another long delirious descent.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
10  Spring had come early that year, with warm quick rains and sudden frothing of pink peach blossoms and dogwood dappling with white stars the dark river swamp and far-off hills.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
11  Scarlett had a sudden treacherous desire to cry out, "But you've been happy, and you and Mother aren't alike," but she repressed it, fearing that he would box her ears for her impertinence.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
12  And here in this new country, safe from the twin perils of the land he had left--taxation that ate up crops and barns and the ever-present threat of sudden confiscation--he intended to have them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
13  If Ellen had ever regretted her sudden decision to marry him, no one ever knew it, certainly not Gerald, who almost burst with pride whenever he looked at her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
14  Prodded by her mother, Prissy bobbed a sudden curtsy and grinned at Scarlett, who could not help grinning back.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
15  "No, not now," said Mrs. Meade, drawing him closer to her, a sudden look of strain coming over her face.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
Example Sentence: (165 in 12 pages)
16  All of a sudden I know two things: why they were on the same brain cell, and how psychiatry works.
17  A sudden peal of thunder leaves no time to cover the ears.
18  Some patients don't refer to the discomfort of angina as an ache; rather they describe it as sudden sharp pains.
19  This sudden development turned all our plans topsy-turvy.
20  The sudden resignation of the financial director put the company in a very vulnerable position.
21  They reported a sudden outbreak of the disease in the south of the country.
22  He felt a sudden compulsion to drop the bucket and run.
23  Drop the gun, put your hands in the air, and don't make any sudden movements.
24  The sudden increase in sales is easily explicable.
25  An autopsy eventually ascribed the baby's death to sudden infant death syndrome.
26  A sudden movement caught my eye.
27  Any sudden inspiration in fact can not replace the long-term Kung fu.
28  She was quick to fill the power vacuum that was left by the sudden death of the managing director.
29  A sudden change of wind checked the forest fire.
30  The sudden jolt plunged her forward.