Example sentences for: hastily

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

  • 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.

  • The harbor was hastily restored during the Korean War and today is one of the busiest and most important trading ports in the world.

  • The naked terms for such a traditionally taboo subject as the toilet have always proved too much to bear for polite society, which hastily covered the bare-cheeked shame of them with a blanket of euphemism.

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

  • Moving with uncharacteristic swiftness, the vice president's campaign wangled an invitation to meet with the students and hastily rearranged [Gore's] schedule."


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