all of a sudden
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
"We were recording in an office and all of a sudden the table moved and we all looked at each other," Ruiz told AFP.
From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026
“We’ve been having this conversation for 50 years. Why is it all of a sudden a problem now?”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026
“People were playing memory, and then all of a sudden they were playing semicap, and then they were playing optical, and then power settings, and then CPUs,” he said.
From MarketWatch • May 11, 2026
"I don't need this virtue signal era to all of a sudden erase an entire life I've led."
From BBC • May 5, 2026
This was the most I’d heard her talk in months, as if all of a sudden she remembered how.
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
