noun
definition
An unexpected occurrence; a surprise.
adjective
definition
Happening quickly and with little or no warning.
example
The sudden drop in temperature left everyone cold and confused.
definition
Hastily prepared or employed; quick; rapid.
definition
Hasty; violent; rash; precipitate.
adverb
definition
Suddenly.
Examples of sudden in a Sentence
She smiled up at him, feeling a sudden need for levity.
She had the sudden urge to assist him.
I just had a sudden chill.
Brady assessed him, not sure what to think of the sudden guardedness to Tim's face.
Would the heart, overweighted with sudden joy, stop beating for very excess of happiness?
His laugh was sudden and short, engaging the dimple.
She pushed their energies away self-consciously at the sudden silence and sets of eyes gazing at her.
He remembered the meadow, the wormwood, the field, the whirling black ball, and his sudden rush of passionate love of life.
All I know is... all of the sudden you were walking away from me - right when I needed you the most.
Dean asked, sudden concern showing on his face.
His sudden grip on her shoulder was tight.
The raised eyebrow expressed her disapproval of his sudden appearance in a way that made him want to touch her and remind her that he did what he wanted now.
The door cracked open, and his woman shielded her eyes against the sudden sunlight.
When I approached carelessly and alarmed them, they made a sudden splash and rippling with their tails, as if one had struck the water with a brushy bough, and instantly took refuge in the depths.
Standing only inches from him, she had the sudden desire to be in his arms.
Now all of a sudden, ideas were persistent.
It felt like a sudden and painful swelling.
I've got no strength left, he added, with sudden resolution turning to the sergeant major.
I can't answer that for sure, but don't you think their sudden interest in the property and the discovery of the bones is quite a coincidence?
She wondered why she had the sudden urge to know what he thought.
Her sudden heart attack had frightened Cynthia, reminding her as an only child she was her mother's sole resource.
Where that thought—or his sudden disappointment—came from, he didn't know.
On a sudden thought I ran upstairs before any one could stop me, to put on my idea of a company dress.
His rage simmered, yet he couldn't maintain the rage when faced with the sudden need to think.
The sudden rush into space confused them so that they could not think.
But what was most amusing," he continued, with a sudden, good-natured laugh, "was that we could not think how to address the reply!
She was going to say that to speak of love was impossible, but she stopped because she had seen by the sudden change in Natasha two days before that she would not only not be hurt if Pierre spoke of his love, but that it was the very thing she wished for.
Saddened, she considered calling him to check in when a sudden pounding at the door made her jump.
We go months with normal, pleasant guests, then all of a sudden we pick up a conflated collection of crazies!
Dean knew in time, he'd get over the sudden death of Edith Shipton but he also knew the fact he failed to stop her from killing herself would remain with him forever.
Neither mentioned the late night phone call during Edith's nocturnal visit nor Cynthia's sudden, unannounced return.
She gasped at the sudden pinch as it snapped into place, and her body went limp.
Lana pulled the blankets up as well, feeling exposed rather than comfortable at his sudden change.
He hadn't expected the sudden loss to hurt like it did.
Actually, there was nothing sudden about her embarrassment.
The worst thing was their terror of reaching the bottom of this great crack in the earth, and the natural fear that sudden death was about to overtake them at any moment.
Then a sudden turn brought them to a narrow gallery where the buggy could not pass.
For a long time, when I wrote a letter, even to my mother, I was seized with a sudden feeling of terror, and I would spell the sentences over and over, to make sure that I had not read them in a book.
Seeing their enemy unexpectedly the French fell into confusion and stopped short from the sudden fright, but then they resumed their flight, abandoning their comrades who were farther behind.
A sudden gust of wind circled them and whispered words in her mind.
Deidre had the sudden urge to go home.
Kiera stood aside, not as much out of deference but out of sudden realization that if she didn't, the man was likely to run her over.
The sudden change in her expression from open to shuttered drew his attention.
He had already stopped for lunch and was rolling toward mile 47 when a sudden thought from nowhere hit him between the eyes.
The young man said he understood but sounded confused at Dean's sudden absence from their lives, though he didn't press for an explanation.
I didn't plan any of it, but all of a sudden, there you are, every dream you ever imagined staring you smack in the face—unbelievable options—every kid's fantasy come true.
All of the sudden I feel overwhelmed by the responsibility of marriage.
His sudden disappearances without her made more sense.
The agony was gone, replaced by sudden strength and energy.
Now all of a sudden you have time to criticize my judgment.