in an instant

Example Sentences

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"If we don't preserve nest sites, and someone paves over them, we could lose in an instant 5.5 million bees that are important pollinators."

From Science Daily • May 28, 2026

I was begging for her to call me and I knew, had it truly been her, that she would answer me in an instant.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026

"A lot of things happened in an instant," he said.

From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026

Then, all of the ideas about what life could’ve been are dashed away in an instant.

From Salon • Feb. 18, 2026

And I knew, in an instant, that this was not the same boy who had been coming to us with his battered old suitcase all these weeks.

From "Missing May" by Cynthia Rylant