Hastily

//ˈheɪstɪli//

"Hastily" in a Sentence (14 examples)

Hastily acquired knowledge was not enough to solve the problem.

Do not answer hastily.

I calculated hastily.

He hastily packed his bags.

When the tip was a lone dime thrown into a glass, the waitress would raise the glass while hastily preparing the table for the next customer. She would then spill the water and that would be it.

Nothing must be done hastily but killing fleas.

He hastily wrote down our names.

She hastily ran to her room.

His daughter hastily hid behind the yellow house.

This letter was full of mistakes because it had been written too hastily.

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The departure was not unduly prolonged.[…]Within the door Mrs. Spoker hastily imparted to Mrs. Love a few final sentiments on the subject of Divine Intention in the disposition of buckets; farewells and last commiserations; a deep, guttural instigation to the horse; and the wheels of the waggonette crunched heavily away into obscurity.

The last occasion on which the Kaiser [Wilhelm II] used this train was for an inglorious journey into Holland towards the end of the 1914 war. He spent the night in it at Eysden [Eijsden], while the Queen of the Netherlands and a hastily summoned Cabinet debated what to do with him.

Eudemis moved hastily but as unobtrusively as he could through the gaping crowd[.]

she with liquors strong his eyes did steepe, / That nothing should him hastily awake [...].

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