The doctor laughed, that same abrupt and almost ugly sound.

He laughed, an abrupt sound that didn't dance along my body; it just filled his face with glee.

An abrupt growling sound came from the people being pushed out of the Plaza.

The other two families are more abrupt sounds that do not have this friction.

The beginning is characterized by a distinctly abrupt sound, meant to grab the audience's attention.

Gordy made an odd, abrupt sound I interpreted as his version of a laugh.

He made a small abrupt sound, not quite a laugh.

Others piled up behind, and again there were abrupt, soft sounds.

He heard only the lapping of the river and the abrupt sounds of the children behind him.

Ariel was about to turn back to the computer and fight the damned machine again when an abrupt sound from outside the room startled her.