on-the-spot
Example Sentences
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Liu practiced in the dress and McKinnon was able to make on-the-spot adjustments.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026
Others only were able to keep running because the company paid prices for on-the-spot gas that had surged to several times the typical price.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026
As we were with Mr Hong, whose boat capsized earlier this year, a team of government inspectors arrived to carry out a series of on-the-spot checks on two of his other vessels.
From BBC • Oct. 23, 2025
Among the on-the-spot penalty creations: hugging, dancing and “too many hot dogs on the ice.”
From Seattle Times • Feb. 21, 2024
Rather, he was something of a poet, an inventor of on-the-spot ballads called corridos, and at one time he had been able to read and write in both English and Spanish.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
