With a curiously abrupt and heavy motion, the figures entered the ship.

Please be alert for possible abrupt motions of the aircraft, indeed!

With an abrupt motion he closed the book and walked away.

I kept moving, not too fast, avoiding any abrupt motions.

He waved his fat hand in a single abrupt motion.

She turned her back on him, and her hair flew with the abrupt motion.

He opened his hands with an abrupt motion and the whole scene dissolved.

He turned away with an abrupt cutting-off motion, led the way into the dining room.

With an abrupt motion, he drove the butt of the staff into the soft ground and lifted his arms.

Without taking his eyes from us, he waved his hand in a short, abrupt motion.