right away
Example Sentences
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“Dad wants you to call him right away.”
From Literature
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Hammering coconuts onto a board doesn’t work because the shell breaks, and if it didn’t break right away, I think bits of it would fall off later and then the raft might sink.
From Literature
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"It's not an opportunity we ever thought we'd get, but it's one we knew we all wanted right away," he added.
From BBC
But it can “feel like a bust because shale production falls off a cliff right away,” he said.
From MarketWatch
"He told me: 'I am about to show you something you won't like.' I didn't understand right away."
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.