Abrupt in a sentence as an adjective

Be careful with an abrupt switch to a standing desk.

It doesn't have to be an abrupt and dramatic death.

This doesn't need to be rude or abrupt, it can be a casual "So what do you do?

And a reminder that despite intense care, life can end for the most abrupt & stupid reasons.

This rupturing causes an abrupt loss of buoyancy; a small number of fish float to the surface, but most sink to the sea floor.

At any rate, I have not seen Gnome 3 give any practical reasons why they did such an abrupt move from Gnome 2 to Gnome 3, beyond that they "had to".

" Upon saying this, everyone in the room froze at the abrupt realization that we should have been posting more photos right then and there.

I found them extremely true to the rapid and abrupt nature of teenage computer use, as showcased in the first 30 seconds of the movie.

Listening to a machine should help alleviate the symptoms of "fear and greed" that lead to abrupt, incorrect decision making.

At the 400 mile mark, right where he stopped for the night, there's an abrupt vertical drop from 90 miles remaining to 20 miles remaining, which exactly matches the journalist's claims.

That would give us the back and forth motion we want, but would have not looked smooth, since we linearly increase, then linearly decrease, and in the middle abruptly change.

"AT&T and the others have been claiming for years that they are doing the best they can and raking in huge profits; this kind of abrupt turnaround just shows what a lie that was.

What about a program that can recover after an abrupt termination, but only after you manually remove a lock file?

I just wish Google would have been straight-up about this, had a big blog post saying "Here is why we think RSS needs to be replaced, and we've got some big plans to replace it, which involve a, b, c, and existing standard d. It's a bit abrupt but we're coming out with X on timeline Y."Not this cryptic ********.

> but the passengers were tech people, so withdrawn from direct, abrupt, interventionary communications...Not sure this writer has actually had to deal with many "tech people".

I'm nowhere near that level but extrapolating from my experience and that of people I know: such abrupt departures are never amiable and are the tip of quite complex political junctures.

If a program fails permanently and dramatically when it's ****-9'd, you should "remove it from your filesystem", because it can't handle other, unavoidable abrupt failures either.

Faced with an abrupt and embarrassing end to the most expensive and sophisticated military exercise in US history, the Pentagon top brass simply pretended the whole thing had not happened.

Abrupt definitions

adjective

marked by sudden changes in subject and sharp transitions; "abrupt prose"

See also: disconnected

adjective

exceedingly sudden and unexpected; "came to an abrupt stop"; "an abrupt change in the weather"

adjective

extremely steep; "an abrupt canyon"; "the precipitous rapids of the upper river"; "the precipitous hills of Chinese paintings"; "a sharp drop"

See also: precipitous sharp

adjective

surprisingly and unceremoniously brusque in manner; "an abrupt reply"