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suddenly English

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suddenly

If something happens suddenly, it happens very quickly when you don't expect it to happen. My son had been sitting in the chair beside me. Then, suddenly, I realised he was gone.

suddenly

happening unexpectedly suddenly she felt a sharp pain in her side quickly and without warning he stopped suddenly (= on the spur of the moment) on impulse; without premeditation he decided to go to Chicago on the spur of the moment he made up his mind suddenly

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Simple sentences

The bride suddenly laughed.
I was walking down the street when suddenly someone tapped me on the shoulder.
Suddenly, the captain left the ship.
The ghost vanished suddenly.
Suddenly he saw me.
She gave me a kiss suddenly.
She suddenly kissed me.
Tom suddenly realized he wasn't alone.
I'm suddenly very thirsty.
Tom suddenly became famous.
We were approaching the bridge, when it suddenly collapsed.
Hardly had they left the building when it suddenly collapsed.
Suddenly, he changed the subject.
He suddenly missed his watch.
Suddenly rain began to fall.
I've suddenly lost weight.
Our train stopped suddenly.
The temperature has suddenly dropped.
The bus stopped suddenly in the middle of the street.
The door was suddenly opened by Mike.
The old man stopped suddenly and looked back.
The plane crashed suddenly.
All communication with that airplane was suddenly cut off.
The man suddenly started shooting his gun.
I've suddenly started to gain weight.
Suddenly, it rained.
Don't brake suddenly.

Movie subtitles

But then, often quite suddenly, they can collapse.
I suddenly have this thought.
Then something suddenly hit me at the back. I fainted right away.
So, it's third and one, they're showing blitz, and suddenly I realize.
Are we suddenly in a board game?
Suddenly, the flag is hoisted.
One of them opens his umbrella to compare its size with the mushroom, but the umbrella suddenly takes root and transforming itself into a mushroom starts growing attaining gigantic proportions.
The astronomers suddenly notice strange beings coming out from underneath the mushrooms while making singular contortions.
While Tristano is leaving Alba. her heart suddenly gets caught by love.
The King has suddenly taken ill!
In the course of the celebration, a foxtrot epidemic suddenly breaks out.
ARE YOU ALL SUDDENLY POSSESSED BY THE DEVIL?
But suddenly, a killjoy appears.
Suddenly, you come to a clearing with a fringe of trees around it.
Suddenly suspiciously watching the windows, whose curtains hide the observer.
Yvette Delys suddenly comes back into the dressing room.
Suddenly the lights go out.
I look closely at the gold piece. and suddenly I know who is my cavalier.
I was so alone, and suddenly you were there.
Why should the signing of these articles be suddenly held up?
It came to me suddenly.
Suddenly I realised the power I held, the power to rule, to make the world grovel at my feet.
You go along laughing and singing like everybody else. - then suddenly, you freeze up like this, and for no reason.
And it happened so suddenly.
Suddenly I'd get angry and fed up to here. and I'd hit her.
So, suddenly, I have to go without a car?
I suddenly lost control of the car.
I do think it a shame, Mary, to end your story quite so suddenly.
They asked me a bunch more questions and suddenly it was all, you know, tea and toast.
She safely got close to me and pulled on my arm suddenly.
The things that need to be done has already been decided, why did the United States suddenly change their minds?
Also, they suddenly notified us that they cancelled the expert visa.
I say. even so, there's also a need to re-investigate properly, there must be no mistakes. But even if it's the United States, there's also no reason to suddenly do this!
Why are they suddenly like this?
In any case, suddenly, lickety-split, planning the wedding of my dreams.
Are you suddenly a baby, an elderly, a weakling?
The king has suddenly fallen ill.
Summoned suddenly to Algeria on business, the Raynals packed in great haste.

News and current affairs

In a matter of hours, more than 3,000 innocent people, mostly Americans, but also people from 115 other countries, had their lives suddenly and violently taken from them.
It is not as if people would suddenly begin to behave better if we just gave them more facts and statistics, or better arguments.
Kuchma has not suddenly converted to the view that parliamentary democracies are better than presidential ones.
Suddenly, everyone doubted the integrity of the financial accounts of American companies.
Suddenly, everyone saw just how much America's system of corporate surveillance and control had deteriorated during the bubble of the 1990s.
The dreaded inflationary endgame suddenly looms as a very real possibility.
Clearly, the Arab world was changing, and the US was suddenly no longer an enemy, but a friend.
Demand growth at a pace that in any previous decade would have been seen as highly satisfactory is suddenly desperately insufficient, and Bush is being blamed (with some justice) for the slack labor market that has resulted.
Bacteria, prions, parasites, and even environmental factors could suddenly change in a way that slays us.
With nuclear power - regarded as the main technological bulwark against depletion of the world's oil supplies - suddenly suspect, oil prices doubled again by the year's end.
Suddenly, Brazilian goods were cheaper than Argentine goods, so Brazilian consumers and businesses reduced their purchases.
Suddenly, the library of utopia seemed within reach.
Such costs are precisely why impecunious countries such as Greece face massive social and economic displacement when financial markets lose confidence and capital flows suddenly dry up.
Then, in the sixth month of the case, the Head Judge in the three-judge panel was suddenly promoted to become the head of a city court an hour from Jakarta.
Flower growers in Kenya, who depend on air transport to take their short-lived product to Europe, suddenly had no income.
Now the world is suddenly asking whether Burma (Myanmar), after six decades of military dictatorship, has embarked on a genuine political transition that could end the country's pariah status.
One day after Nicolae Ceausescu's execution, most of these people suddenly became fierce anticommunists and victims of the system they had served for decades.
In three years of increasingly bloody conflict, the only diplomatic success was achieved when Assad believed that he faced US missile strikes. He suddenly saw the desirability of getting rid of his chemical weapons.
But had vast numbers of Germans suddenly lost their senses overnight, or were they part of a situation in which most of us would simply have done as we were told?
They appeal, above all, to the logic of popular suspicion that perhaps becomes inevitable when a proud nation is suddenly laid low: Pigna, like Lanata, presents a history full of conspiracy, lies, treason, and corruption.
Across Europe, they have suddenly become political arbiters.
In the event of an increase in a commodity's price, a finance minister who has done a perfect job of hedging export-price risk on the futures market will suddenly find himself accused of having gambled away the national patrimony.
Otherwise, simmering trade frictions could suddenly throw globalization sharply into reverse.

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