prompt
Example Sentences
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“Pah. Photographing a banana for the prompt yellow? That’s so cliche.”
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The very idea of such prompt, no-nonsense execution of one’s responsibilities was so admirably Swanburne-like that Penelope’s spirits were quite lifted.
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I could prompt them each time they stumbled.
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Instructions always very clear and payment prompt, but it was odd, all the same.
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But the answer my mind gave—“Leave Thornfield at once”—was so prompt, so dread, that I stopped my ears.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.