sudden
happening without warning or in a short space of time
How often you will meet it
Rank 641 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 29,783 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.014% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 1,000 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
adjective
- happening without warning or in a short space of time a sudden storma sudden decision
sudden in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Sudden and violent twitching of the eyes.
Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 08, May 21, 1870 · Various · Chapter 1
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Her heart leaped with a sudden ecstasy, involuntary and uncontrollable.
Christian's Mistake · Dinah Maria Mulock Craik · Chapter 1
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She turned on him with a sudden flash of indignation.
Ethan Frome · Edith Wharton · Chapter 1
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But a sudden thought darkened his brow again directly, and in a low voice he asked: "When was Croesus executed?"
An Egyptian Princess — Volume 07 · Georg Ebers · Chapter 1
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The thirty-five-year graduates, eighty strong, the men who are handling the nation, wear a unanimous sudden growth of rolling gray beard.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1