instanter
Example Sentences
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When the Legislature legalized bottled beer but forgot draft, Governor McNutt fixed things up instanter with a proclamation, let the Legislature approve his action more than a year later.
From Time Magazine Archive
At one point where their special train was going at only 5 m.p.h., the hose of the air brakes broke and stopped the train instanter.
From Time Magazine Archive
Next day he called in R. F. C.'s Jesse Jones, Undersecretary of the Treasury Acheson and Farm Credit Administration's Henry Morgenthau Jr. to discuss putting this new monetary policy into practice instanter.
From Time Magazine Archive
Not every victim of a heart attack dies instanter.
From Time Magazine Archive
He congratulated me, and asked that we might remove ourselves there instanter so he could sleep without being roused by Irish balladry and ensigns lifting their shirts to compare back-hair.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
