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Example sentences for "incredibly short"

  • Clothes were converted into rags in an incredibly short space of time.

  • The first intimation of one coming on was a demoniacal groan, and in an incredibly short time a space was cleared round him.

  • With all the space at their disposal the wonder is a swimming bath has never commended itself.

  • Shortly after sunset a dark bank of clouds arose in the south, which, in an incredibly short space of time, spread over the face of the heavens, completely shutting in every ray of light.

  • A halt was ordered; and, in an incredibly short time, our animals were picketed, Jerry and Don Ignacio had started out for a reconnoissance of the Comanche camp, and the men were enjoying a hearty supper.

  • In an incredibly short space of time a dense cloud of smoke enveloped the low structure.

  • In an incredibly short space, a small flame partially lit up the dank interior and soon after began flickering and bobbing about like a large firefly.

  • In an incredibly short time, he was lying in the grass at their feet, the cynosure of hundreds of curious eyes.

  • No sooner, however, did William hear of his proceeding than he hurried back from England, and in an incredibly short space of time was at Le Mans: he found his vassal more powerful than he expected, and much violence ensued.

  • If the destroyer once discovered its presence, therefore, it could reach its prey in an incredibly short time.

  • But in a few weeks we had taken the house adjoining, cut holes through the walls and put in doors; and this, too, was filled up in an incredibly short time, so rapidly did the administrative work grow.

  • As soon as the destroyer sees this betraying disturbance, the commander rings for full speed; and one of the greatest advantages of this type of vessel is that it can attain full speed in an incredibly short time.

  • They ran downstairs together as swiftly as they had run up a few minutes earlier; and in an incredibly short space of time the car was flying through the sweet night air once more.

  • It had not rained for some time, and in an incredibly short time, the beautiful structure of a few minutes before, was beyond saving.

  • So it came to pass, in an incredibly short time, that almost every one who had supplied damaging testimony against the Jew, had renounced it.

  • It is observable, that till a captured elephant begins to relish food, and grow fat upon it, he becomes so fretted by work, that it kills him in an incredibly short space of time.

  • In an incredibly short time a detachment of these pests will destroy a press full of records, reducing the paper to fragments; and a shelf of books will be tunnelled into a gallery if it happen to be in their line of march.

  • An incredibly short space of time elapses before the division of the stone is completed, when the fire is carefully extinguished with earth or sand, and the stone allowed to cool.

  • Dead or dying animals are discovered in an incredibly short space of time by birds of prey; and when they are seen curling and wheeling over any particular spot you may rest assured that food is the attraction.

  • The men wanted no second bidding; they knew that if we got pooped a second time it would be all over with us; and in an incredibly short space of time we had the sail set, and were bowling away to leeward after the Frenchman.

  • The ranks were filled to the maximum, in an incredibly short space of time.

  • In an incredibly short space of time, the order was executed.

  • He was back in an incredibly short space of time.

  • The laagers were formed, as I have described, to accommodate the seven hundred women and children in the place; while the eight hundred men were organised in troops, and armed and horsed in an incredibly short space of time.

  • In an incredibly short space of time M'Culloch with his mule-guns was clambering up the rugged koppie on which we were posted, and the two 7-pounders were very soon fitted together and ready for action on the summit of the rocks.

  • In an incredibly short time we were under way again, and proceeding with great rapidity towards Vissarion.

  • Despite the wind, it arrived there in an incredibly short time.

  • She was out through the window in an incredibly short time, now clothed once more in that dreadful wrapping.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "incredibly short" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    also took; anxious desire; branch from; dark face; explained only; food habits; former ages; headed eagle; here below; important part; incredibly short; last resort; one hundred and fifty; persuade himself; private member; smaller proportion; term applied; then spread; though unable; under cultivation; whole race; you would