trice

Example Sentences

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On 15 July 1965, NASA’s Mariner 4 probe sent back grainy images of Mars, revealing a forbidding surface that destroyed florid Victorian speculation in a trice.

From Nature • Jan. 7, 2019

We’d hired someone to help us sort through our belongings—keep it, sell it, give it away—Patty could get rid of anything in a trice.

From Salon • Sep. 23, 2018

In a trice she can shift registers, though, and her candor and keenness of eye translate surprisingly well to tenderness.

From New York Times • Jan. 30, 2018

He was maybe three feet from the net, but somehow, in a trice, managed to extend his left arm sideways and tilt his racquet head down toward his thighs.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 30, 2016

They could have showed us a thousand big, flat-faced men, and we would have known Mr. Kendall in a trice.

From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk