trice

Example Sentences

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“Nowadays it often seems writing is nothing at all,” Duras recorded in it presciently, years before the internet made everyone a créateur or -trice.

From New York Times

"Maggot topping, all slimy and nice! I shall devour it in a trice!"

From Literature

In a trice they were back, moist snouts poking from the excavation.

From Literature

She stared down at him, first impassively, then, in a trice, her blue eyes filled with tears.

From Literature

In a trice she emerges as Rachel, proprietor of Tel Aviv’s most chic French restaurant with the general firmly in her sights.

From Los Angeles Times