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suddenness

[ UK /sˈʌdənnəs/ ]
[ US /ˈsədənnəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning

How To Use suddenness In A Sentence

  • I guess the suddenness of it all kind of numbed me to it a little. Casting clues and possible solutions
  • In the perfectly motionless flattened sphere, without the shimmer of premonition and with inconceivable suddenness, a white cross smites itself, as it were, through the sarcode. Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885
  • He must have been very drunk, for at last the heavy sleep gripped him with the suddenness of a magic spell, and the last word lengthened itself into an interminable, noisy, in-drawn snore. Youth And Two Other Stories
  • The remarkable fact about this inpouring of wealth is its extraordinary suddenness.
  • Bewildered by the suddenness of this blow, I could but watch in helpless silence the advancing throng, with my poor friends in their midst, their hands bound, their tottering footsteps directed by rude shoves towards the pipul tree, the accustomed assembly place of the villagers and the village council. Tales of Destiny
  • This past week, the two little guys learned - with amazing suddenness - how to ride bikes.
  • Now here, thinks I, is a bonny kettle of fish, for Margaret was sitting with us, but for all the suddenness of it she never geed her beaver, and I kent then that she had word some way. The McBrides A Romance of Arran
  • The suddenness of her change of love was no more amazing than the magic of the mergence of the frames. Here There Are Monsters
  • Where the dilatation is of the saccular variety, it may come up in such quantities and with so much suddenness as to gush from the mouth. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
  • Born in London of a French mother, by a German father, but reared entirely in England and in France, there is, in his fury, a combination of French suddenness and impressibility with our more slowly demonstrative Anglo-Saxon way when we get, as we say, “our blood up”, that produces an intensely fiery result. Miscellaneous Papers
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