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How to use the word Suddenly in a Sentence?

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What fork or knife to use was tricky at first, i never used to have more than one fork or one knife on the table, and suddenly I had three of each. It was like, what do I do ?

– Hamza Taouzzale

Found on New York Times
10 months ago

The Russian Ministry of Defense did not acknowledge it, they did not talk about it in their regular coverage, and (the bloggers) suddenly went from being this small group that was covering nationalist topics and Russian conflicts worldwide to becoming the source of information in Russia.

– Kateryna Stepanenko

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think a lot about the printing press, we suddenly had the ability for people who disagreed with … the Catholic Church to take it on and say, ‘ I think that you’re doing it wrong, and we’re going to share that information. We’re going to be better at it than you, and we’re going to be more nimble than you. ’ Redwan Farooq How lab-grown meat could help the planet and our health.

– Hank Green

Found on CNN
1 year ago

People who have sided with the rail industry again and again and again are suddenly acting like rail safety advocates, but it also creates the chance to call them to the table and say, ‘OK, if we’re serious now, let’s do this.’.

– Ohio Whether Buttigieg

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It was just something that happened suddenly and jarringly to families that are already struggling to afford the basic essentials of life, like rent and gasoline and health care and, of course, food.

– Vince Hall

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Samantha Markle, who I had n’t seen for over a decade – and that was only for a day and a half – suddenly, it felt like Samantha Markle was everywhere, i do n’t know your middle name. I do n’t know your birthday. You’re telling these people that you raised me, and you’ve coined me ‘ Princess Pushy. ’.

– Phil Noble/Getty Images Meghan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

These glacial dams are no different to constructed dams, if you take the Hoover Dam, for instance, you’ve got a massive lake behind it, but if you suddenly remove the Hoover Dam, that water has to go somewhere, and it’s going to come cascading down a valley in massive flood waves.

– Tom Robinson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

But we have to … keep working because the worst thing that could happen is we get to a point this summer where, suddenly, we can’t raise the debt ceiling, and the full faith and credit of the United States is at risk, and we don’t pay our debts. That’s unacceptable.

– Brian Fitzpatrick

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our hope, of course, is that leadership and the White House are able to work something out, but we have to … keep working because the worst thing that could happen is we get to a point this summer where, suddenly, we can’t raise the debt ceiling, and the full faith and credit of the United States is at risk, and we don’t pay our debts. That’s unacceptable.

– Josh Gottheimer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Europe’s vulnerability that was suddenly exposed existed because of a longstanding complacency by Western powers, western Europe had not been willing to listen to the frontline states who warned over the Russian regime’s intent and understood that more expensive energy was a price worth paying in exchange for not being vulnerable to Russian pressure. This complacency left Russia with multiple open goals to kick at in major Western European capitals, most notably Germany.

– Keir Giles

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I know that people have worked years to come up with a process, and then suddenly if my county is going down this other road, at this point, no, I do not trust that.

– Stephani Stephenson

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

This idea that Perdaman is going to suddenly be built on that landscape is just unbelievable, absolutely unbelievable.

– Benjamin Smith

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Just like a butterfly's chrysalis, this satellite was long dormant and suddenly became active, and the rings emerged.

– Jack Wisdom

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It destroyed our crops and houses. The breach took place suddenly and we were unaware( it was about to happen.) No one had informed us.

– Yar Mohammad

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I don't think The Fed wants to see things suddenly decelerate, nor do they want to see things move at too rapid of a rate for the economy to adjust, what The Fed wants is the Goldilocks economy. They want The Fed to be moving along at a steady pace — but not too fast ; not too hot, not too cold.

– Brian Bethune

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The desire to be' accurate' suddenly disappears when sex isn't involved and it is actual interesting day to day minutiae, if the(' Game of Thrones') world was historically accurate, why isn't every single noble house or castle absolutely covered by huge gaudy, colourful murals ? Why is it that this form of historical accuracy isn't important, but showing rape as endemic is ?

– Eleanor Janega

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I could've accidentally somehow had some stroke or whatever and suddenly my foot goes on the accelerator or a heart attack or who know what could happen. There's always that chance.

– Jon Herrity

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We really should not be testing with children, i could've accidentally somehow had some stroke or whatever and suddenly my foot goes on the accelerator or a heart attack or who know what could happen. There's always that chance.

– Jon Herrity

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Even running my own team, if I suddenly stopped doing work that everyone assumes I'd be doing, there would be trouble and things would fall through the cracks.

– Kathy Caprino

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They had already hired new employees and purchased additional equipment when they suddenly had to shut the business down [ because of Covid ].

– Michael Pugh

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The overall demand for merchandise went up quite dramatically, so we were suddenly asking our system to handle a lot more stuff.

– David Dollar

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He was a Soviet officer, most likely a lieutenant, who simply saw the opportunities presented by three factors that came with the collapse of the USSR and the state sponsorship that entailed : abandoned aircraft on the runways from Moscow to Kiev, no longer able to fly because of the lack of money for fuel or maintenance ; huge stores of surplus weapons that were guarded by guards suddenly receiving little or no salary ; and the booming demand for those weapons from traditional Soviet clients and newly emerging armed groups from Africa to the Philippines.

– Douglas Farah

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Joe Biden is Joe Biden. And I don't expect Joe Biden to suddenly become a partisan flamethrower, and I don't think we need Joe Biden for that.

– Brian Schatz

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I don't think that there's suddenly any more fraud or anything different going on, it's just one person saying there was and having so many people that believe everything he says, that they now have taken that as their message. There in itself is the most frightening thing in this country.

– Susan Loconsole

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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