Until her abrupt return to the East in 1976, they saw each other often face to face and had no need of letters.

These days, there is an alternative to the abrupt return to society experienced by John Steinbeck's hero.

Yesterday's abrupt return to work left many feeling groggy, bewildered and depressed.

He was certainly curious about his brother's abrupt return to his life.

There were power droughts; sudden failures of the delta-inducer brought painfully abrupt returns to consciousness.

Unsteady from the abrupt return, Nicholas blinked as he opened his eyes.

His abrupt return to law-talk seemed to confuse her.

"Whatever it is, I ain't eating it here," she said with an abrupt return of energy.

The gorges seemed to be startled at its abrupt return to itself.

Passion and surrender, her romantic fantasies of love, the overheard conversation just now, her abrupt return to reality.