instantly

Example Sentences

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Instantly, Camille is overcome with desire, as well as a more surprising, complicated feeling: jealousy.

From Salon • Feb. 18, 2026

Instantly recognizable as the backdrop to the L.A. skyline, Mt.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 2026

Instantly recognisable by their electric blue shop fronts, branches of LAP Coffee have become a common sight in Berlin's hippest neighbourhoods over the past two years.

From Barron's • Nov. 16, 2025

Instantly the movie—about a boy who accidentally travels back in time in a now-iconic DeLorean and must find his way back to the present—was what it was meant to be: funny.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025

Instantly, the streets became raging rivers filled with wreckage—chunks of wood and metal and glass, overturned motorcars and wagons.

From "I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919" by Lauren Tarshis