Very froglike, she was still except for her blinking eyes and a few abrupt jumps upward.

The changes came in abrupt, disorienting jumps.

It was the same abrupt jump from moment to moment that one would typically associate with a dream.

He always stopped, of course, at the abrupt jump in sea level that marked the rejoining of the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean.

The sky darkened, not gradually but in abrupt jumps.

Keegan was the only one who moved, making an abrupt jump to the left, past the edge of the window, the toolkit bumping his knee and the wall.

However, there is no record of a culture anywhere in the universe making such an abrupt jump.

Though the novel's abrupt jumps from one year to another are startling, and the writing is sometimes ungainly, "Boondocking" still seems to rumble along.

The core shows an abrupt jump of pollen specimens at 11,000 years, corresponding with the Younger Dryas stadial in Europe.

The game play at the Quidditch World Cup was removed for timing reasons, leaving an abrupt temporal jump which some reviewers considered awkward or "rushed".