Example sentences for: promptly

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

  • Several weeks later he was asked — then ordered — to vacate the room to make room for high rollers, whereupon he promptly bought the property and fired the management.

  • They were promptly executed.

  • If health benefits were taxed as income, people would promptly demand that the cash be paid directly to them and that they be allowed to choose their own insurance.

  • Last summer, Finkelstein published an article with the lurid title "Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's 'Crazy' Thesis" in the British New Left Review . Shortly afterward, it was excerpted in the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel and in Italy's Panorama . Goldhagen promptly denounced Finkelstein as a supporter of Hamas, a radical Islamic Palestinian group.

  • Earlier this year, when Arianna Huffington argued in her syndicated column that Gingrich should step aside as speaker, an editorial promptly appeared in the Journal charging Huffington with "intellectual exhibitionism."


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