A snug sense of comfort stole over him, which was rudely broken, the next moment, by a chorus of piping cackles and coarse laughter.

The quietness of a literary life was rudely broken by the French Revolution, to which he was openly hostile.

The thread of the argument had been rudely broken, and the audience was restless and expectant.

And then their somber silence was rudely broken by the thrum of harp strings struck badly for just that purpose.

At her age--at any age--is such a tie as this to be rudely broken at the mere bidding of circumstances?

When I left, the spell had been rudely broken.

The dead heat of a still summer night was rudely broken.

Their youthful demand for romance saw an innocent, artistic waif mishandled and rudely broken by a conventional and uncaring world.

The illusion was rudely broken when Captain Styles cracked the seal on the simulator room.

On a certain Tuesday the course of his triumphs was rudely broken.