Saturation occurs abruptly and is an important part of the design of the tag.

Ann's jaw dropped in astonishment as another element of the spell abruptly occurred to her.

Her phantosmia episodes would occur abruptly and would last from minutes to half an hour.

Some were gradual over time and others occurred abruptly following invasion.

From the cave art evidence, scholars have usually inferred that the transition to modern human behavior occurred late and rather abruptly.

And then another motive abruptly occurred to him and he tensed.

Then it abruptly occurred to me that it couldn't be paint.

These occur abruptly and spontaneously, sometimes without any change in traffic volume or speed to trigger them.

Some large-scale changes could occur abruptly, i.e., over a short time period, and might also be irreversible.

The change occurred more abruptly than ever: self-preservation at its highest level.