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"Shortly" in a Sentence (17 examples)
Dr. Stein will be with you shortly.
The mayor will shortly announce his decision to resign.
Shortly after the accident, the police came.
"I've finished" said Tony shortly, then he closed the piano.
Shortly after the war my father bought a new house, in which I was born.
My grandfather died shortly after my birth.
The hospital patient dropped off shortly after the doctor injected him with anesthesia.
He reached home shortly before five o'clock.
It is rumored that he will shortly resign.
He arrived shortly after.
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The past perfect progressive is used for actions and situations which had continued up to a past moment or shortly before it.
No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or otherwise his man would be there with a message to say that his master would shortly join me if I would kindly wait.
Kaplan-Miller said she first joined the Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom, an interfaith organization that was founded by a Muslim and a Jewish woman in suburban New Jersey, shortly after the 2016 election.
Ideas are generally expressed more shortly in verse than in prose
We shall not describe this tragical scene too fully; but we thought ourselves obliged, by that historic integrity which we profess, shortly to hint a matter which we would otherwise have been glad to have spared.
"Stop interrupting me, will ya?" she said shortly.
'Well, I still think it was a rather off-hand way for you—for anyone—to behave,' he said shortly. Suddenly Melody felt trapped—and annoyed. And she didn't like being spoken to like a child, either.
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