hastily

Example Sentences

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I hastily searched for a way to cover the cost of keeping me here.

From Literature

It functions as a modern high-tech replacement for an inner steel-and-concrete structure -- known as the Sarcophagus, a defensive layer built hastily after the 1986 incident.

From Barron's

A hastily agreed sale to Swiss trading firm Gunvor was spiked by the Treasury Department, setting off a scramble among other energy companies and investors to buy the potentially lucrative assets.

From The Wall Street Journal

The dim-witted creature knew exactly who had dangled from a rope ladder hastily lowered from a balloon and landed in the same spreading elm branches that the fluffy-tailed, beady-eyed menace called home.

From Literature

Ridge was coming back into focus, like a hastily reassembled puzzle.

From Literature