hastily
Example Sentences
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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.
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
Greg Lippmann wrote back hastily and ungrammatically, “Would you like to give us some other bonds that we can tell you what we will pay you.”
From Literature
If you didn’t spend your formative years reading hastily penned blogs that ended with .mp3 embeds of dubious legality, it’s possible you don’t know who Grimes is.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.