on-the-spot
Example Sentences
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Most of all, I’d leave room in the itinerary for on-the-spot finds.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026
The district — where nearly all students come from low-income families — also brings in corps of tutors who walk the class and offer on-the-spot help.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2025
This would mean on-the-spot fines of £200 for retailers selling unregulated products or to people aged under 18.
From BBC • Nov. 4, 2024
Among the on-the-spot penalty creations: hugging, dancing and “too many hot dogs on the ice.”
From Seattle Times • Feb. 21, 2024
Rather, he was something of a poet, an inventor of on-the-spot ballads called corridos, and at one time he had been able to read and write in both English and Spanish.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
