in an instant

He has a line in the middle of the play that reads, “In an instant, all will vanish and we’ll be alone once more in the midst of nothingness.”

In an instant, his beach route comment did me a huge kindness and made me feel like an incurious boor.

In an instant the family was ripped from its roots in the town of Deir Qanoun En Nahr.

In an instant—a single click of my mouse—Find a Grave sprouted an entire branch of my family tree that I didn’t even know was there.

And there were others, killed in an instant, in their own neighbourhood – including two 19-year-old girls who were sitting outside his door.