precipitantly

Example Sentences

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He sank a catamaran in a storm in the Mediterranean, after Ann had prayed for three nights on deck while he apologised, precipitantly, for drowning their children.

From The Guardian • Mar. 4, 2017

But he aimed far higher, precipitantly invaded Tin Pan Alley.

From Time Magazine Archive

And yet after all, though the poor came to town very precipitantly, as I have said, yet I must say the rich made no such haste.

From A Journal of the Plague Year, written by a citizen who continued all the while in London by Defoe, Daniel

At all events, he went away without warning—fled precipitantly.

From The Key to Yesterday by Buck, Charles Neville

They stepped back precipitantly, and one of the men was tripped up as a shaft slipped between his legs.

From The Return of Tharn by Browne, Howard