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Example sentences for "hastily"

Lexicographically close words:
hastens; hastes; hasteth; hastie; hastilie; hastiness; hasting; hastis; hastly; hastow
  1. I moved back hastily and came into collision with a very stout old gentleman, who gave me a rough push forward, so that I felt inclined to burst out crying.

  2. Then he hastily added: "But I am sure he was not killed, for I have searched every part of the field where he could possibly have fallen.

  3. I saw one of these hastily moving groups prostrated by a shell, and none of them rose again or struggled.

  4. Hastily seeking her own room she locked the door to hide the tears of anger and humiliation that would come.

  5. It is settled then, and events will shape future action;" and he was turning hastily away.

  6. I shall go with you, Merwyn, to police-headquarters;" and he hastily began his preparation.

  7. The possibility of this made her so ill and faint that she hastily left the apartment and went up to the darkened drawing-room, where her father found her a moment later seeking to stifle her sobs.

  8. She has gone to join her son," said the girl, as she hastily rebolted and barred the door.

  9. Hastily drying her eyes, she tried to suppress her strong emotion.

  10. All I wish is that you should not bestow them so hastily as not to secure the best possible guaranties of happiness.

  11. Mr. Vosburgh hastily entered, and Marian rushed into his arms.

  12. He hastily secured a point of observation in a building opposite, for while the vision of the young girl awakened almost desperate revolt at his lot, he could not resist a lover's impulse to see her.

  13. Hastily disguising himself as he had done before, he again summoned his faithful servant.

  14. Instead of taking his proffered hand, she trembled, turned to the piano, and said hastily between the notes she played: "Control yourself and listen.

  15. Orders were therefore given to dispose as hastily as possible of the dead and wounded: some prisoners that were taken having been already paroled; among whom was the officer taken by Barry on the preceeding day.

  16. When she opened her eyes and collected her scattered senses, she hastily arose, and dressing herself, rang a small bell that lay on her table, and which her hostess desired she should use when she required any attendance.

  17. When she entered the house, with a view to concealing her emotions and making some secret preparations for the accomplishment of the sudden project foreshadowed by the words of the stranger, she hastily gained her chamber.

  18. Poet, falling upon his knees before John and hastily wiping the verse off his tablets, "give me one more chance, I beg of you!

  19. He hastily began stripping off the plates of metal, and placed the steel helmet over the head of the gingerbread man.

  20. Both the children started at hearing this, and glanced hastily around; but nothing but the walls of the palace met their gaze, and the King smiled upon them indulgently.

  21. Dearest Georgiana, I have spent much thought upon the subject," hastily interrupted Aylmer.

  22. Oh, no," hastily replied her husband; "this is merely superficial.

  23. The incessant crash and jar of these cakes almost drowned the ripping sound of sheets of pack-ice driven bodily under the floe as cards are hastily pushed under a table-cloth.

  24. But no translation can give the effect of it, or the yelping scorn the Four threw into every word of it, as they heard the trees crash when the men hastily climbed up into the branches, and Buldeo began repeating incantations and charms.

  25. Hastily replacing it in neutral, Green said, "Well, we know what that one does.

  26. He hastily wrote a note, put it in the basket, which had a cover that could be snapped shut, and told Grizquetr to throw it over the side, aiming at the steps.

  27. A treaty was hastily drawn up, guarding against the atrocities that had distinguished Drogheda and Wexford, and then the English General inquired if Hugh O'Neill was aware of the mayor's action.

  28. They were hastily polished up, and with remarkable celerity the tea was served to the thirsty king.

  29. He hastily concluded a treaty of peace with Tyrone, appointed Lords Justices to carry on the government, and repaired to England on September 24, having spent less than five months in Ireland.

  30. News of Yorkists' triumphs in England took Richard hastily to London, where he found an excited populace awaiting him, and calling upon him to crown himself King of England.

  31. Hastily pulling it off, therefore, I folded it up in some rude fashion, for I could not afford to lose it, and pitched it over a space between the houses.

  32. No sooner had the landlord uttered the name than I looked hastily at Cynthia, and she looked hastily at me.

  33. Thereupon I hastily entered to advise Cynthia of her danger.

  34. Then he stepped hastily from his hiding-place, took it away and at once swallowed it.

  35. Hastily I sent word to the princess, and she reviewed the prisoners before the palace.

  36. Hastily he stepped to the edge of the road, in order to allow the cavalcade to pass, and watched it ride by.

  37. The Prince of the Dragon Cave hastily bade the dance cease, and had the dancers of the nightingale round step forth.

  38. Then eight of the maidens hastily came ashore and drew on their clothes.

  39. Then the Herd Boy hastily got down from the cow's back, seized the red clothes and ran away.

  40. When people see it coming they hastily burn incense, bow in prayer before the waters, and promise the river-god a theatrical performance.

  41. The emperor was much frightened, and hastily called out to him; but he did not awake.

  42. The Triton took the message to the castle, and the Dragon-King of the Eastern Sea came out hastily to receive him.

  43. So he hastily entered the wood to see who might be singing.

  44. Then Mosu hastily fell on his knees and answered: "I have sinned and beg for mercy!

  45. At this point, Jimmy hastily remembered that he must beat it, pleading what Phil knew to be an imaginary recitation.

  46. His fingers went instinctively to his--perhaps too hastily selected?

  47. With conscientious dignity I replied that I had only really laughed seven times in my life, and therefore the entertainment was one which I was not likely to embark upon hastily or with inadequate cause.

  48. Beware a smoke-breathing demon," is frequently cast across one's path upon a barrier, and this person has never failed to accept the omen and to retrace his steps hastily without looking to the right or the left.

  49. He covets rule, and covets it with criminal passion, since he hastily overleaps the order of age, of nature, of the Macedonian custom, and of the laws of nations.

  50. There was confusion both on land and sea; the mariners struck their tents, and hastily conveyed on board the provisions which had been sent on shore; the soldiers in a panic rushed into the boats, and even into the water.

  51. Subsequently the contest became less spirited; as the besieged stopped the passage, sometimes by stretching strong hair-cloths across it, sometimes by hastily placing doors in the way of their antagonists.

  52. After this, he hastily turned away, and they were desired to quit the palace.

  53. The king of the Istrians, though drunk after his banquet, was hastily mounted on a horse by his people, and effected his escape.

  54. The post had just arrived as they were leaving Rydal, and she had hastily torn open a letter from George, and thrust the others into a large empty envelope.

  55. Cicely getting up, and hastily rearranging her short curls with the help of various combs, before the only diminutive looking-glass the farm sitting-room provided.

  56. Then when she had watched old Backkhouse make his farewell, and turn towards the gate, she hastily opened a black silk bag hanging from her wrist, and thrust the letter into it.

  57. She hastily put all her black clothes aside.

  58. Ruth in an entreating voice as she hastily ran down.

  59. Very often in the evening he came hastily into the nursery to say good-bye on his way out to some dinner-party, and at night she woke up to hear his step on the stairs as he came back late.

  60. We passed the tombs of the Horatii and Curiatii, which looked much grander in the light of the torches than in the day, and, driving hastily through Albano, came upon the Campagna once more.

  61. The last of the straggling passengers hastily entered the car.

  62. Grandmother Gordon hastily began to gather up the dishes.

  63. Then he called hastily unto the young man his armourbearer, and said unto him, Draw thy sword, and slay me, that men say not of me, A women slew him.

  64. Now the men did diligently observe whether any thing would come from him, and did hastily catch it: and they said, Thy brother Benhadad.

  65. Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.

  66. Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh.

  67. An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.

  68. Hastily extinguishing the lamp, Morrow felt his way to the kitchen, where he pocketed Caliban with scant ceremony and departed swiftly the way he had come, through the pantry window.

  69. At that moment the kitten emitted a fearsome yowl, which Morrow smothered hastily with his coat.

  70. The detective handed Ramon Hamilton a typewritten sheet of paper from his desk; and the young man, after hastily perusing it, gazed with a blank stare of amazement into Blaine's eyes.

  71. The detective scribbled hastily on a pad for several minutes, then leaned back in his chair, with a sigh of satisfaction.

  72. Wondering, Ramon Hamilton shuffled hastily through the paper in the pigeon-holes of his desk until he came to a letter from Pennington Lawton.

  73. Calling his secretary, he hastily dictated a letter.

  74. His look was changed to the face of Frances, who, startled by the earnestness of his expression, arose, and hastily inquired if he would have any assistance.

  75. Tis not the will of God to call a soul so hastily to His presence," said the peddler with solemnity.

  76. This arrangement was hastily and imperfectly completed, as the dragoons entered the lawn and orchard of the Locusts, riding with the rapidity of the wind; and in their turn the Whartons were surrounded.

  77. Their duty was hastily but effectually performed; and the guides withdrew to the post assigned to them for the approaching fight.

  78. He scarcely had time to bid the black, with a faint voice, to show this second comer in, before the door was thrown hastily open, and the stranger himself entered the apartment.

  79. The boy hastily kissed his mother's hand, adorned with rings, and rushed out of the room.

  80. No, no," he put in hastily in response to a look and gesture from Mariana.

  81. Once, on arriving late at a political meeting, he hastily began excusing himself.

  82. Then, finding that he made no reply, but only stared at me with those strange eyes, I stepped hastily back, shut the door without another word, and hurried out of the church.

  83. But the Englishman snatched it hastily away.

  84. The Englishman listened and lingered, made as if he would go in, and then, with something of a smile upon his lip, turned hastily away.

  85. I exclaimed, rising hastily from my knees, "I am faint--blind!

  86. You have seen such men in cities frequently; but the word distingué, so often too hastily bestowed, was the chief characteristic of the appearance of his younger companion.

  87. Her shrieks filled the house; another physician was hastily summoned in Dr.


  88. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hastily" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abruptly; apace; bang; briefly; carelessly; dash; desperately; expeditiously; fast; furiously; hastily; headfirst; headlong; heedlessly; hotfoot; immediately; impetuously; impulsively; instantly; madly; plop; plump; plunk; pop; posthaste; presto; promptly; pronto; quick; quickly; rapidly; recklessly; sharp; short; shot; slap; smack; soon; speedily; spur; suddenly; superficially; surprisingly; swiftly; unawares; wildly