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suddenly
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Suddenly is the fifth studio album by British recording artist Billy Ocean , released in 1984. It featured his first major U.S. pop hit single " Caribbean Queen (No More Love On The Run) ", which reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 record chart .
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 13c., sodeinli ; see sudden + -ly (2).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sudden \Sud"den\, a. [OE. sodian, sodein, OF. sodain, sudain, F. soudain, L. subitaneus, fr. subitus sudden, that has come unexpectedly, p. p. of subire to come on, to steal upon; sub under, secretly + ire to go. See Issue , and cf. Subitaneous .] Happening ...
Usage examples of suddenly.
We had suddenly switched our allegiance from India to Aboriginal Australia and I guess, in their eyes, they could see no reason why we would do that except for the money.
Suddenly, it was as if a window in heaven had been opened and I saw a group of Aboriginal women standing together.
You were asleep, or at least I thought you were, then suddenly, I saw you standing with a group of Aboriginal women.
A large eel suddenly broke the surface tearing at the side of my abraided leg.
Suddenly, Abrim wanted nothing so much as to exit this gleaming sterile bubble and get back to his crowded, cluttered ship.
Suddenly he glanced absently at the pistol in his hand, and returned it to his holster.
Mere minutes after the decoys had completed their burns, six COREs, accelerating at a terrifying rate, suddenly lifted out of orbit toward the decoys.
Then that deranged half split down the middle and I became suddenly and mortally certain that Valerie had asked me to pilot the shoot as some sort of test, and that her selection of Acer was to let me know that I had missed my last chance to recapture her.
Suddenly she heard movement in the undergrowth and whirled to see Acorn lunging toward her with a crazed gleam in his eyes.
I suddenly realized that Aden relished playing lord of the manor, and his humor and teasing were all part of that larger-than-life image.
In the midst of this zeal against popery and the pretender, they were suddenly adjourned by the command of the lord-lieutenant, and broke up in great animosity against that nobleman.
Suddenly she cast aside the book and rushed to the afterclap of the wagon.
Jannis saw how Ali Aga had fallen in the world, and suddenly he felt very fond of this Turk, whose misery frightened him.
Her allies in the East, Russia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Rumania and Yugoslavia, suddenly were faced with the fact that France would not fight against German aggression to preserve the security system which the French government itself had taken the lead in so laboriously building up.
There is no cure for the ailment that has so suddenly come over me and my doctor tells me that I have, at most, a few months more to live.