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

They left the rail precipitantly, and clustered about the mess kits Yip had just finished placing on the deck.

From Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story by Springer, Norman

Caught by the gust of wind, my gentleman from the second story window ran precipitantly into the other.

From An Enemy to the King by Stephens, Robert Neilson

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