Then would he break off abruptly, turn his face away, and stare at the fire.

He broke off abruptly, stared at Carpenter for a long moment.

The whistling out there in the night broke off abruptly.

She broke off abruptly, but that did not make her silent.

I first suspected this when Here the letter broke off abruptly.

We both broke off abruptly, then looked at each other and laughed.

He broke off abruptly, and listened, his head a little on one side.

The talks broke off abruptly after the Soviet's soldiers were fired upon.

It breaks off abruptly in the middle of a sentence.

Frank broke off abruptly and sprang up from his chair.