lickety-split
Example Sentences
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Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace could have supplied us, lickety-split.
From Salon • Dec. 6, 2024
The world is changing at a lickety-split pace, but the return of GiveBIG on May 2-3 reminds us that the desire to do good is an unchanging feature of the human heart.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 20, 2023
Marshal, with lickety-split wit: “Some would say infamous.”
From Washington Post • Jul. 14, 2022
With her help, he begins an acting career, which leads lickety-split to the top job at Paramount Pictures.
From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2019
David, in fact, likes to go to the very top of that hill and then go running lickety-split down it, racing to see who’s first to the fence at the bottom.
From "Shiloh" by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
