QUICKLY in a Sentence

Learn QUICKLY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
420 example sentences for QUICKLY, such as:
1. I ate too quickly and got hiccoughs.
2. A staff is quickly found to beat a dog with.
3. The girl quickly disappeared among the crowd.
4. Children quickly get bored by adult conversation.
5. Scarlett rose quickly, struggling with her anger.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of QUICKLY
quickly
 ad.  without taking pains
 ad.  with rapid movements
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  He stood there a moment, breathing quickly, and looking up and down the street, in which not another figure moved.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  Denis laughed, and gave the horse a cut that brought him quickly abreast of her retreating figure.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
3  She stopped short, and he felt, in the darkness, that her face was lifted quickly to his.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
4  She waited while he seated himself with crossed legs in the front of the sled; then she crouched quickly down at his back and clasped her arms about him.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
5  She sat huddled in an arm-chair near the stove, and when I came in she turned her head quickly toward me, without the least corresponding movement of her body.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
6  She quickly brought order, dignity and grace into Gerald's household, and she gave Tara a beauty it had never had before.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
7  The languor of midday had taken hold of the gathering, but underneath lurked tempers that could rise to killing heights in a second and flare out as quickly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
8  Scarlett thought quickly but could remember no family in the County or Atlanta or Savannah by that name.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
9  "No," she said quickly, her eyes glinting up at him ominously.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
10  But she carried the child through its time with a minimum of discomfort, bore him with little distress and recovered so quickly that Mammy told her privately it was downright common--ladies should suffer more.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
11  So she turned quickly where Uncle Peter pointed and bowed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
12  He was beside her quickly and his deft fingers untied the wide bow under her chin.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
13  Her eyes sought his face quickly and with joy, wondering if he meant that leaving her was breaking his heart, even as it was breaking hers.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
14  The thing that mattered was for the war to finish quickly and for Ashley to come home.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
15  Scarlett rose quickly, struggling with her anger.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Children quickly get bored by adult conversation.
2  Reaching this agreement so quickly was a great achievement.
3  The girl quickly disappeared among the crowd.
4  She quickly totted up our bill and added an amount for the waiter.
5  A better strategy is to announce the changes quickly and then implement them slowly.
6  Scan the newspaper article quickly and make a note of the main points.
7  The attorney quickly turned his main defense argument on its head.
8  He showered quickly, rinsing away the dirt of the journey.
9  We quickly mastered the basic fundementals of navigation.
10  A staff is quickly found to beat a dog with.
11  The reason why people give up so quickly is because they look at how far they still have to go, instead of how far they have come.
12  I ate too quickly and got hiccoughs.
13  It was generally admitted that the government had acted too quickly.
14  A horse whinnied and reared; the troop trotted quickly out of the inn yard towards the high road.
15  Patriotism can turn into jingoism and intolerance very quickly.