Example sentences for: swiftly

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

  • As the curtain closes and applause spills across the footlights, the message is reiterated: "Cotton has never moved like this"--as swiftly to harvest, or across a stage.

  • For a view of the muddy, swiftly moving Yellow River and the city along its banks, go along to White Pagoda Hill Park (Baitashan Gongyuan), once a military stronghold.

  • I should not like to have to face the task of listing all the adverbs that might be used with the verb run , even if it is restricted to cars: smoothly, quietly, silently, uninterruptedly, fitfully, intermittently, efficiently, well, faultlessly, beautifully, perfectly, poorly, badly, sluggishly, economically, swiftly, rapidly, quickly --and then one must be prepared to add the multi-word phrasal modifiers, like without a hitch, as if it would never stop, like a clock, like clockwork , etc.

  • We have moved very swiftly from seeing welfare as an unconditional right to viewing it as no right at all.

  • Capital now moves swiftly and freely around the globe--a phenomenon Friedman calls, in one of his catchier coinages, an "electronic herd."


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