hastily

Example Sentences

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“The doctors hastily placed me on oxygen to jump-start my lungs. It worked,” he wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

Victors went beyond checking off a list of hastily scrawled names to thanking entire categories of people: women, ancestors, Koreans, audiences.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2026

Frightened and not knowing where to go, they hastily took cover under the steps of a villa whose owners had themselves left everything on the table and hurried off.

From Barron's • Mar. 14, 2026

"All respect to the ballet and opera people out there," he added hastily, realising how his words may go down.

From BBC • Mar. 9, 2026

The roads out of the city were filled with people walking with their hastily packed belongings.

From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh