quickie

Example Sentences

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Craig and Carter Blanchard collaborated on the screenplay adaptation, and the film relies on the kind of quickie reveals and twists that audiences would expect from this kind of thing.

From Los Angeles Times

Lately, she’s been teaching classes on making bagels — not the quickie recipe, but the overnight version.

From Seattle Times

Their curiosity turned quickie, unauthorized biographies like “Leonardo DiCaprio: Modern-Day Romeo” into bestsellers and compelled them to fire up their modems and head to GeoCities to make rudimentary websites that functioned like virtual bedroom walls.

From Los Angeles Times

“They’d rather have this quickie ceremony,” she said, “and spend the money on a world cruise for a honeymoon.”

From Los Angeles Times

And so in September, Marie went down to Tijuana to get a quickie divorce, which was very popular back then.

From Scientific American