Example sentences for: hastily

How can you use “hastily” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It is in the often hastily constructed and hastily named developments on the edges of Santa Fe that the names are most feverishly given.

  • Why do we turn so hastily to Greek and Latin whenever a new word is wanted, instead of seeking one home-born?

  • The Social Security Administration hastily abandoned a Web site it had created that allowed workers to check their earnings records and benefit entitlements.

  • Cut to a couple of years later when her puzzled husband, who had no clue as to her motives for leaving the marriage so hastily (but if he had asked me I would have said "Give a little thought to the area of dental hygiene"), accidentally intercepted a piece of her mail that mentioned a few of the lottery details.

  • A funny set of dispatches chronicles Election Night at, among other places, the DNC victory party (hastily assembled when it became clear there was something to celebrate), the RNC "victory" party (still termed so despite being less than victorious), the AFL-CIO headquarters (where they wouldn't watch ABC news because of a labor dispute), and a bar in Marietta, Ga. filled with glum conservatives.


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