lickety-split
Example Sentences
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A former child prodigy on the mandolin, Hull opened the evening flexing her Berklee-trained chops in a series of lickety-split bluegrass numbers that got early arrivers whistling with approval.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2025
Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace could have supplied us, lickety-split.
From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2024
A sweet tooth may be satisfied lickety-split with pastries, cakes, coffee and tea from Josun Deli the Boutique.
From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2022
Marshal, with lickety-split wit: “Some would say infamous.”
From Washington Post ● Jul. 14, 2022
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
