How to use "sudden" in a sentence

After a sudden storm, canyons can quickly fill with water

Then, with a sudden movement, he bent down and picked it up

There was a sudden silence in the room

'Her?' said the woman, her voice filled with sudden hatred

The street was lit with a sudden flash of light and filled with the thunder of gunfire.

The boy scratched his head, thought for a moment, and then, with a sudden movement, took the letter and ran off into the night.

This was enough to fill his hate-filled heart with sudden joy

And then he had a sudden idea!

It was arranged that the couple, who could not believe their sudden, new-found happiness, would live with M

Her death was very sudden

When I heard the sound of a car in the drive, I stood up in sudden fear

I had a sudden feeling that Frank knew the truth.

Sitting in the dark theater, he smiled, not at the comic magician who was performing in front of the closed stage curtains, but at his own sudden, youthful exuberance.

The sudden silence had an oppressive weight.

She blinked in the sudden light and saw that she was alone.

And when all of a sudden someone does hit it big, especially on a slot machine where it can happen in a flash, they're so surprised they pass out

She had a sudden urge to see the Strip

"Kennebeck!" Elliot said, startled by a sudden insight

Her sudden gullibility dismayed and alarmed her, because it indicated that the decision to have Danny's body exhumed was not having the stabilizing effect on her emotions that she had hoped it would.

Elliot's Mercedes was parked at the far curb, and she was six or eight feet from the car when the sudden outward-sweeping shock of the explosion shoved her forward

Beyond the window, out on Charleston Boulevard, traffic sailed murkily through a sudden churning river of dust and paper scraps.

If he's subjected to many more of these sudden temperature fluctuations, we'll never be certain they didn't contribute to his death

So why do I feel terrific all of a sudden?"

"The brain doesn't all of a sudden start growing new little nodes that nobody's ever seen before."

It was remarkably free of ruts and chuckholes for most of its length, although the Explorer scraped bottom a few times when the track took sudden, sharp dips.

Through sudden tears of pain, Elliot saw the young guard rushing him, and he squeezed off one whisper-quiet shot.

"In fact, all of a sudden, it seems inevitable

In each subsequent meeting, one or the other would show up to take story notes on their latest draft, while the missing partner would always have been waylaid by an emergency of one kind or another: a broken washing machine and a flooded laundry room, the sudden-onset illness of a cat with symptoms suggesting (to me) demonic possession, the death of a beloved aunt, the death of a beloved uncle, the death of a beloved neighbor (I began to worry that merely by associating with these women, decades would be shorn from my life span), migraine headaches, and an unfortunate encounter with an angry Big Foot in a long line at the DMV

Instead, I decided to try a sudden attack.

'But if there was an argument,' I argued, 'the shot may have been fired in sudden anger, and Lawrence might have been very upset afterwards about what he had done.'

That night, too, there was another sudden cloud of gas from the distant planet as a second missile started on its way to Earth from Mars, just under twenty-four hours after the first one

'Leatherhead!' I shouted above the sudden noise.

Everyone stood still, stopped by the sudden sound of battle, near us but invisible to us.

I had a sudden thought and looked to the north, and there I saw a third of these cloudy black hills.

He made a sudden movement backwards and for a moment I shared his panic

The tentacle was now two metres or more into the room, moving backwards and forwards with strange, sudden movements

Look at the sudden lines around her mouth

I stood up quickly, feeling the same sudden fear I had felt when that hand touched my arm at the lonely crossroads

Her sudden kindness and sympathy was too much for me