incontinently

Example Sentences

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The only hangover symptom you’ll feel is the blush that comes from having laughed incontinently at jokes that don’t seem all that funny in the daylight.

From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2017

Thus was the puissance of anathema incontinently squandered.

From The Guardian • Apr. 2, 2010

In the U. S., only brash, Johnny-jump-up William Saroyan hastens more incontinently to answer his critics than Playwright Clifford Odets.

From Time Magazine Archive

And, generally, whatever is done after an interval may be said 139 to be done incontinently, if done as soon as a chance for doing it was given.

From The Old Yellow Book Source of Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book by Anonymous

"Nay," explained the doctor, "the good landlord told me one was 'down' in his house: so I said to myself, 'a stranger, and in need of my art'; and came incontinently."

From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles