The song mounted into the air, then abruptly fell silent.

They fell abruptly, and found that the planet did indeed have liquid water.

The white walls abruptly fell away, or rather something different grew out of them.

At my word the boy and girl fell abruptly silent.

On the far side of the ridge the land falls abruptly into the plain.

He abruptly fell silent, as if a needle had been lifted off a record.

Such a move, she said, would send Treasury bill rates falling even more abruptly.

That evening, sitting up in bed, I abruptly fell through onto the bunk below.

Night fell abruptly, as if a shade had been lowered.

Interest rates would rise sharply, and the dollar could fall abruptly.