suddenly

/ ˈsʌdənlɪ /

adverb

1. quickly and without warning; unexpectedly

Example Sentences

Anastasia Sergeyevna Bizyaeva, an engineer at Cornell University, says the trend reminded her of the dynamics she studies, called behavioral cascades, where a system that has reached a certain threshold can suddenly shift.

From Science Magazine

Then, the robbers would suddenly turn on their victims, brandishing a handgun, threatening them with physical force and demanding they get in the car, police said.

From Los Angeles Times

At that moment, a group of people suddenly appeared, apparently from nowhere, wielding banners and shouting that the BBC were “paedophiles”.

From BBC

"If you change the environment even a tiny bit, the protein is like a transformer that suddenly flips from a car into a robot."

From Science Daily

Within 10 minutes - before we’d really begun our ascent - I suddenly had to lie down.

From BBC

Related Words

• abruptly
• all of a sudden
• quickly
• swiftly