As it surfaced abruptly, the submarine's steel rudder, designed to break through Arctic ice floes, knifed through the Japanese vessel's hull, sinking it within minutes.

Commander Waddle was in charge of the Greeneville, an attack submarine, when it abruptly surfaced beneath a Japanese fisheries training vessel.

The habitual energy that had been lacking in her all day abruptly surfaced in a torrent of passion.

"Without the others' knowledge," the report said, Best abruptly surfaced.

The crying in her mind abruptly surfaced and she jerked her left hand up to cover her eyes, trying to repress a sob.

The moment he disconnected most of his consciousness from Chell's running discourse, the question that surfaced abruptly was "Why now?"

He surfaced abruptly, shaking his head to clear it and gulping in air like a diver down too long.

A person who performed some routine office for an indefinite period, then abruptly surfaced as a spy or agent at a critical occasion.

Taken aback by this implication of honest confidence, Owen Davies surfaced abruptly from the pool of righteousness that had threatened to swallow him.

After the periscope check, the submarine descended again and then surfaced abruptly in an emergency drill, colliding with one of those contacts, which turned out to be the Ehime Maru, a training vessel.