Use sudden in a sentence
Sentences starting with sudden
- Sudden he took to shiverin', and snatched me by the arm, and a mad look shot out of his handsome face. [11]
- Sudden at the moment of its occurrence, we had long been more or less prepared for it by his failing health. [6]
- Sudden and strongly marked variations are rare; it is also doubtful whether if beneficial they would often be preserved through selection and transmitted to succeeding generations. [1]
Sentences ending with sudden
- Indeed, that is very sudden. [5]
- The Toe gits up sudden. [4]
- It was as unexpected as it was sudden. [4]
- When I climb the trees, and throw down the dusky fruit, Polly catches it in her apron; nearly always, however, letting go when it drops, the fall is so sudden. [4]
- Was it too sudden? [4]
- It's really very sudden. [12]
- He stood perfectly still; the shock was so sudden. [11]
- It was all so sudden! [4]
- Now who--" He shut off sudden. [5]
- You've got a quick mind and you know how to act sudden. [11]
Short sentences using sudden
- All of a sudden, bang! [5]
- There was a sudden silence. [11]
- She had a sudden intuition. [11]
- He had a sudden impulse. [11]
- A sudden fear seized Honora. [9]
- So sudden and prostrating. [5]
- A sudden fury possessed him. [11]
- Sudden, was n't it? [4]
- With sudden resolution Druse turned. [11]
Sentences containing sudden two or more times
- There was a sudden leap and stir of blood that had been asleep for an hour, and as sudden a rousing of all the drowsing activities in our minds and bodies. [5]
- The sudden change in the old man's appearance had not been lost on the spectators, but they set it down to weakness or a sudden sickness. [11]
- Well, since yesterday he did feel it, and a sudden sense of pity sprang up in him--vague, shamefaced pity, which belied the sudden egotistical flourish with which he put his monocle to his eye and tried futilely to smile in the old way. [11]
More example sentences with the word sudden in them
- Himself in early youth had felt the austerity of a Cavalier father turned a Puritan on a sudden, and he wished no such experience for his daughter. [11]
- And they say you put up a notice sudden like, without asking them, that there'd be two long shifts instead of three eight-hour ones. [9]
- But we know you not," he cried, with a sudden and surprising vigor; "ha, we know you not! [9]
- He seized her wrist as it lay on the wall, and she winced from the sudden pain of his grip. [9]
- He gave the wretch a sudden twist, pulling him clear of the hole, and wrenched the knife from his fingers at the same moment. [11]
- She had one word which she always kept on hand, and ready, like a life-preserver, a kind of emergency word to strap on when she was likely to get washed overboard in a sudden way--that was the word Synonymous. [5]
- Face to face with the man who had tempted him to crime, Lygon had a new sense of boldness, a sudden feeling of reprisal, a rushing desire to put the screw upon him. [11]
- These two, blessed with sudden wealth, projected a visit to New York,--Col. Jack to see the sights, and Col. Jim to guard his unsophistication from misfortune. [5]
- Then, as if with sudden thought: "To whom were the letters addressed, Pierre? [11]
- He grew white with sudden passion. [9]
- Then, as though with sudden impulse, Kitty came forward to Crozier and leaned over him. [11]
- His face flushed with sudden desire to laugh, then it paled in dumb astonishment. [11]
- Very slender limbs, with bends like a grasshopper's; sits a great deal, I presume; looks as if he might straighten them out all of a sudden, and jump instead of walking. [6]
- His brow wrinkled with a sudden trouble. [11]
- One day Dicky, with a sudden burst of generosity--for he had a button to his pocket--gave Mahommed Seti a handful of cigarettes. [11]
- With a sudden wild resolution he raised the pistol to his head. [11]
- Many a general who has fought a desperate and victorious fight after a long campaign, and amid all the anxieties and miseries of war, has failed to follow up his advantage, from a sudden lesion of the power for action in him. [11]
- Once in a while, even in our Northern cities, at noon, in a very hot summer's day, one may realize, by a sudden extension in his sphere of consciousness, how closely he is shut up for the most part.--Do you not remember something like this? [6]
- And it was while he was in the midst of an anecdote proving the existence of this quality in his friend that he felt a sudden clutch on his arm. [9]
- No one knew where he had gone, but his friends in Silliston believed he had been seized by one of his sudden, capricious fancies for wandering. [9]
- Venters breathed lighter when that was over, and felt a sudden assurance in the success of his enterprise. [13]
- Elsie was naturally what they call a man-hater, and there was very little danger of any sudden passion springing up between two such young persons. [6]
- And then, with what seemed a retarded rather than sudden awareness, I knew that he had stopped speaking. [9]
- Crosses or Mr. Weekes's acarus should show himself all of a sudden, as they said he did, in certain mineral mixtures acted on by electricity. [6]
- Any time; to-day,--next week, next month,--I answered.--One of those cases where the issue is not doubtful, but may be sudden or slow. [6]
- But after that we was all right again--it was the sudden surprise of it that knocked us so kind of cold. [5]
- In Orlando's veins was Southern sap, mixed with Northern blood; in Orlando's eyes was a sudden look belonging to that which defies the law. [11]
- Mr Swiveller, who was not in the secret, was a little surprised to hear a suppressed scream, and, looking round, to see Mrs Quilp following him with a sudden jerk; but he did not remark on these appearances, and soon forgot them. [12]
- The sudden appearance was even more startling than the strange canoe that crossed their track on Lake of the Winds. [11]
- At last I was aroused by the sudden cracking of a knot in the torch. [11]
- The chief reason was a sudden, vivid sense of the terrible contrast between something infinitely great and illimitable within him and that limited and material something that he, and even she, was. [2]
- She slipped: there was a sudden sinking, a sharp cry, then another, piercing and hopeless--and it was the one word--"Jacques! [11]
- But now, without warning, a sudden fierce yearning took possession of her: surprised and almost frightened, she stopped irresistibly and looked back at the thin little figure crouched beside the water, to discover that his widened eyes were still upon her. [9]
- Thus the second waggon likewise had come to hurt by the sudden stopping of the first, and it was but hardly saved from turning over into the ditch. [10]
- There is no voice like that which breaks the silence--of the stagnant hours of the night with its sudden suggestions and luminous counsels. [6]
- They must be visible; but"--and this "but" brought sudden illumination to the praetor's mind, "why should Caesar see them? [10]
- It is no valid objection to this conclusion that animals suddenly supplied with an excess of food, or when grown very fat; and that most plants on sudden removal from very poor to very rich soil, are rendered more or less sterile. [1]
- It was in vain that he applied to his business acquaintances and friends; it was a period of sudden panic and no money. [5]
- And then I used to wonder--what became of you--and whether--" I hesitated, overwhelmed by a sudden confusion, for she was gazing at me fixedly with a look I did not understand. [9]
- Such do not use the penny-post, they send a gilded and painted special messenger, and he strides into the Parliament, and business comes to a sudden and solemn and awful stop; and in the impressive hush that follows, the Chief Clerk reads the document. [5]
- A sudden call upon Mr. Bolton for a large sum of money, which must be forthcoming at once, had found him in the midst of a dozen ventures, from no one of which a dollar could be realized. [5]
- There had come upon her the sudden impulse to leave it all, and go back to her father. [11]
- Then he pulled up sudden, and it got so quiet you could 'a heard a pin drop. [11]
- The sudden flaring up of this trivial incident served to re-establish her identity, to light a fuse along which her mind began to run like fire, illuminating redly all the events of the day before. [9]
- Once he got up in the dark and drank great draughts of water; once again, as he thought of Mona, his wife, as she was in the first days of their married life, a sudden impulse seized him. [11]
- He had picked up his hat from a corner of the littered table, and started to leave, when Garvin, by a sudden movement, planted himself in the doorway. [9]
- It was not until the morning dawned that the true nature and extent of the sudden movement was ascertained. [6]
- Seeing their enemy unexpectedly the French fell into confusion and stopped short from the sudden fright, but then they resumed their flight, abandoning their comrades who were farther behind. [2]
- There was an undertone of reflection in the voice which did not escape Mrs. Crozier's senses, and it also caught the ear of the Young Doctor, to whom there came a sudden revelation of the reason why Burlingame had left Mrs. Tynan's house. [11]
- The insane and uncanny variety of fruits--the sudden withering--all these things are helps. [5]
- Sometimes as the two talked Angele would join them; and then there was a sudden silence, which made her flush with embarrassment, anxiety or anger. [11]
- Then a sudden turn of the road brought us in sight of that fire--it was a large manor-house, and little or nothing was left of it--and everywhere men were flying and other men raging after them in pursuit. [5]
- Perhaps some lover trod the way With shaking knees and leaping heart, --And so it often runs astray With sinuous sweep or sudden start. [6]
- With a sudden tragic motion she caught the pistol from the table and raised it, but he wrenched it from her hand. [11]
- As she ran towards him, with sudden impulse, his arms spread out and he caught her to his breast. [11]
- As he turned towards her again, Orlando was startled by a sudden action on the part of his broncho. [11]
- The Royal Court, too, caught on a sudden marching in their robes, turns to and joins the cortegee, and the little birds a-tweeting-tweeting, and two parsons at the grave. [11]
- The wondering shepherds told their breathless tale Of the bright choir that woke the sleeping vale; Told how the skies with sudden glory flamed; Told how the shining multitude proclaimed "Joy, joy to earth! [6]
- Please git him to turn back; I wants to be whah--" All of a sudden we see something, and all jumped up, and forgot everything and begun to gaze. [5]
- It was impossible to take Margaret with him on his sudden and tedious journeys from one end of the country to the other, but she needed a change. [4]
- The Prince continued to struggle for freedom, and to rage against the treatment he was suffering, until John Canty lost what little patience was left in him, and raised his oaken cudgel in a sudden fury over the Prince's head. [5]
- Queen Anne seems to strike them all of a sudden, and become epidemic. [4]
- My plan was to speak gently to the horse, requesting him to go, and then to follow the refusal by one sudden, sharp cut of the lash; to wait a moment, and then repeat the operation. [4]
- He was trying to see his way through a sudden confusion of ideas. [11]
- It isn't fair to leave you with the impression that this is a sudden determination. [9]
- To lead her to it he seized her hand, but it was limp and cold, and a sudden fear came into his voice. [9]
- Confusion was rare to him, and his senses, feeling the fog, embarrassed by a sudden air of mystery and a cloud of futurity, were creeping to a mind-path of understanding. [11]
- Ought he not to greet this sudden end as a boon from the immortals? [10]
- Ferrol was about to follow him, but he had a sudden fit of weakness, and he caught up a pillow, and, throwing it on the chest where Shangois had sat, stretched himself upon it. [11]
- Lise was roused to a sudden pitch of fury. [9]
- All debate came to a sudden end, of course. [5]
- Twice, thrice, four times, she tried to wrench her hand with a sudden jerk through the fingers that grasped it; but each time in vain. [10]
- I have many times stopped short and held my breath, and felt the blood leaving my cheeks, in one of these sudden clairvoyant flashes. [6]
- For a long time she sat motionless, then a sudden restlessness seized her. [11]
- He remembered the thrill he felt as the coil settled on his shoulders, and the sudden impulse which led him to fire as he did. [6]
- And here those three young people were drowned, a few summers ago, by the upsetting of a sail-boat in a sudden flaw of wind. [6]
- At the sudden thought of the rope--so ignominious, so hateful--he shuddered. [11]
- But a sudden thought darkened his brow again directly, and in a low voice he asked: "When was Croesus executed? [10]
- The explanation of this sudden uprising was this. [5]
- What has started this sudden excitement about iron? [5]
- The Landlady bore this sudden bereavement remarkably well. [6]
- For centuries had this startling little scene and the sudden illumination of the niche round the head of the god been worked in precisely the same way at high festivals--[They are mentioned by Rufinus. [10]
- Why should not this happen, when we know that a sudden mental shock may be the cause of insanity? [6]
- He began to think upon ways and means to meet this sudden preference of the Queen, made sharply manifest as he waited in the ante-chamber, by a summons to the refugee to enter the Queen's apartments. [11]
- Only old Mother Thibadeau, who had a heart that sees, caught a look in Fleda's eyes, a warm deepening of colour, a sudden embarrassment, which she knew how to interpret. [11]
- I'm the man they call Sudden Death and General Desolation! [5]
- Here and there they burst out in sudden conflagrations of vivid yellow against a background of sober or sombre color, with a so startling effect as to make a body catch his breath with the happy surprise of it. [5]
- In dull seasons they are too large; in times of brisk advertising, and in the sudden access of important news, they are too small. [4]
- It is odd, these sudden jumps from season to season. [5]
- June came, and then there was a sudden sorrow at the Bridge House. [11]
- Yet now and then the staring light was broken by sudden and deep shadows--great fissures in the rocks and lanes between. [11]
- The people threw themselves on the champion in a frenzy of rage, but he felt a sudden warlike impulse surging up in him, which he had never felt before. [10]
- Perhaps you know them," she added, with sudden inspiration. [9]
- For not stripping them bare by sudden and arbitrary tax levies, and bringing famine upon them; 3. [5]
- As Carnac saw the world where there was not a single material thing that belonged to him, he had a sudden conviction that his life would run in other lines than those within which it had been drawn to the present time. [11]
- In a moment the vessel's nose was towards the bay, and she sailed in, dipping a shoulder to the sudden foam. [11]
- His companion crossed the threshold close behind him, sullen, deeply incensed, and determined to order his son to choose between his love and favour and the daughter of this unfriendly man, whom only a sudden accident had prevented from breaking the betrothal. [10]
- Of a sudden the tall, ungainly form of Percy Singleton filled the doorway, wrapped in a greatcoat. [9]
- I suppose that the sun, going through a man, as it will on such a day, takes out of him rheumatism, consumption, and every other disease, except sudden death--from sun-stroke. [4]
- This confession, with the sudden glimpse it gave him of the fires within her that would not die down, but burned now more fiercely than ever, sent the blood to his head. [9]
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