quickie

Example Sentences

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Add a few flying saucer chases, cook up a quickie solution to the grandfather paradox and this movie might have fallen at the intersection of “E.T.” and “Back to the Future.”

From New York Times

A quickie wedding followed by a paternity test isn’t unheard of, and that pretty much sums up the direction of Episode 4, which marks the halfway point in the slightly shorter second season.

From Los Angeles Times

We don’t need big bads; it’s scary enough that Jill is doing worse and worse at her quickie mental acuity checks.

From Los Angeles Times

Being half Jewish and fearing the growing power of Nazi Germany, in 1935 Sybille acquired a new last name — and a British passport — through a quickie, unconsummated marriage with a man she never saw again.

From Washington Post

When she discovers that he and Marina are planning to have a quickie marriage in Scotland, it’s the last straw.

From Washington Post