In a sentence
Six example sentences with abrupt, each labelled with its topic.
The editor's abrupt cuts drop us from the courtroom into a childhood kitchen without a single establishing shot.
Movies
Her setlist was deliberately abrupt, lurching from a whispered ballad straight into a wall of distorted guitar.
Music
The memoir is abrupt by design, leaping between the flooded farm and a Toronto office with no warning.
Literature
Wittgenstein's later notebooks feel abrupt, jumping from a remark on pain to one on arithmetic without any bridge between them.
Philosophy
The game's story is abrupt, cutting from a quiet farm scene to a spaceship battle with no explanation in between.
Gaming
Therapists notice when a client's speech turns abrupt, leaping between topics so fast that no single subject gets finished.
Psychology
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