How To Use Suddenness In A Sentence
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I guess the suddenness of it all kind of numbed me to it a little.
Casting clues and possible solutions
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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
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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
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The remarkable fact about this inpouring of wealth is its extraordinary suddenness.
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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
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This past week, the two little guys learned - with amazing suddenness - how to ride bikes.
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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
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The suddenness of her change of love was no more amazing than the magic of the mergence of the frames.
Here There Are Monsters
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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"
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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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The melancholy of the whole story, the pity of it, the one long sigh which Schlegel heard in it, is conveyed with an almost magic suddenness in this single touch; and yet one touch more, and that of priceless importance, the suggestion of the whole world of misery and disorder that may lie hidden as an awful possibility in the tempers and vanities of even two poor old heads of houses.
Introduction
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Fire here becomes a metaphor for the suddenness of the event.
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The suddenness of this move surprised many observers.
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M. Ferrand survives where his English counterpart has disappeared because change has not overwhelmed him with the suddenness that it has overtaken his analogues in Britain.
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But when a new mother, who also happens to be a kind of magus, says it, it takes on a suddenness that appalls us.
News at Eleven: I was dumbstruck by this stanza
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Congenital abnormity, leucocythemia and death of suddenness threaten the life of child below 5 years old severely, it must be prevented and cured.
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Considering the manner in which acetylcholine must reach the motor end plates of the muscle fibres, if it were indeed the transmitter of motor nerve excitation - that it must appear with a flash-like suddenness, in high concentration, simultaneously at every nerve ending - we concluded that the ordinary method of injecting acerylcholine, so that it reached the muscle by slow diffusion from the general circulation, could not possibly reproduce this abrupt appearance at the points responsive to its action.
Sir Henry Dale - Nobel Lecture
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The suddenness of the attack left no time to launch lifeboats, so the 900 sailors who escaped the sinking ship found themselves floating in life jackets.
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Suicide is devastating, its suddenness can leave many unanswered questions.
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We moved briskly along at the edge of Sloan's Lake, when Fred stopped short with such suddenness that he fairly yanked my arm out of the socket.
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With his separation ability, suddenness and speed, Winslow consistently gets open.
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The suddenness of the tsunami caught literally tens of thousands of people unaware along the coastlines of southern Asia.
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a well-developed "cropper;" his dromedary had put its foot in a hole, and had fallen with a suddenness generally unknown to the cameline race.
The Land of Midian — Volume 2
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It was the suddenness of his illness that came as such a shock.
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He could not get over the suddenness of it, and watched them forlornly, gazing enviously at their conferences over the medicine chest, once straightening himself from his search for stones to call longingly:
The Emigrant Trail
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He opened his blue eyes and, seeing Wesley, grinned with a suddenness that was startling.
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After a few years, when all the richest mining claims had been staked, this small city imploded with equal suddenness, turning almost into a ghost town.
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As Simon strolled pensively through a little silvan glade, surrounded on either side with tall forest trees, mixed with underwood, a white doe broke from the thicket, closely pursued by two deer greyhounds, one of which griped her haunch, the other her throat, and pulled her down within half a furlong of the glover, who was something startled at the suddenness of the incident.
The Fair Maid of Perth
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Her thoughts crystallised with the suddenness of a bolt of lightning.
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The term revolution in these cases stresses the suddenness and the radical nature of the new development; it has no further implication than to signify a change brought about by
REVOLUTION
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Bifolding glass doors and windows ran the length of the house, opening out to a wide sun-drenched terrace flanked by roughcast walls smothered in a dark creeper, the outer edge of which fell away with heart-stopping suddenness into a zigzag shaped swimming pool.
Mistress For A Weekend
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He arrived in camp, none the worse for a well-developed “cropper;” his dromedary had put its foot in a hole, and had fallen with a suddenness generally unknown to the cameline race.
The Land of Midian
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Her thoughts crystallised with the suddenness of a bolt of lightning.
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It is early morning and dawn has crept over the land with the suddenness characteristic of summer.
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It was the suddenness with which the drop opened, more than a thousand feet from Hualapai Hilltop to the pale thread of the track below, that took my breath away.
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Peter's been gone long enough that the suddenness of his passing has gone by but the ache is still there.
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She arose with catlike ease and suddenness to her full height, her eyes flashing, her nostrils quivering like a deer's.
NEGORE, THE COWARD
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M. Ferrand survives where his English counterpart has disappeared because change has not overwhelmed him with the suddenness that it has overtaken his analogues in Britain.
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The haze of myth is dissipated, with extraordinary suddenness, from the origins of the world and of life.
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She woke in the pitch darkness of the curtained bed with the suddenness of one called.
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This time, the suddenness of the fall was reinforced by the fact that it immediately followed her latest explosive re-entry into the political firmament.
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In short, the disaster falling upon the whole city was unsurpassed in magnitude, and unapproached by any in suddenness and in horror.
THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES
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She glanced at her own reflection in the mirror and the answer came with the suddenness of a hammer blow.
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Not all things disappear with dramatic suddenness and it might be decades before the various depredations to which wild life is exposed begin to have a noticeable effect.
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The shark attacked with a suddenness and swiftness that took them all by surprise.
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It dawned upon me with a certain suddenness that I was different from the others; or like, mayhap, in heart and life and longing, but shut out from their world by a vast veil.
American Girl
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It's not the fact of immigration that is the problem, Alex (after all, there have anyways been people coming and going on these islands, whether for reasons of persecution, self-betterment, commerce or romance), but rather the numbers and the suddenness.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
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It was the suddenness with which the drop opened, more than a thousand feet from Hualapai Hilltop to the pale thread of the track below, that took my breath away.
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The suddenness of the storm, and its inexorability, amaze the crew; their aristocratic passengers show only irritation at the crew's alarm.
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Or perhaps we might liken him to that ingenious piece of fire-work called a zigzag cracker, which explodes with unexpected and repeated suddenness, changing its position in a most perplexing manner at every crack.
The Young Fur Traders
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The suddenness of the tsunami caught literally tens of thousands of people unaware along the coastlines of southern Asia.
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Not all things disappear with dramatic suddenness and it might be decades before the various depredations to which wild life is exposed begin to have a noticeable effect.
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In short, the disaster falling upon the whole town was unsurpassed in magnitude, and unapproached by any in suddenness and in horror.
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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We may take it that the term applies to the suddenness of the struck blow and the corresponding speed at which news is transmitted these days.
Underworld
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It consists of a series of dissyllables, low at first with a pause after each, but gradually growing in intensity and succeeding one another at shorter intervals, until the bird seems to have got fairly into its stride, when it pulls up with dramatic suddenness.
A Bird Calendar for Northern India
