Instantaneously
[,ɪnstən'tenɪəsli]
Synonyms and Synonymous
ad. Immediately, forthwith, INSTANTER, in an instant, on the instant, in a moment, right away, without a moment's delay, all at once, on the spur of the moment, in less than no time, quick as thought, quick as lightning, before one can say Jack Robinson.""
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Examples
- The vault above became obscured, lightning flashed from the heavy masses, followed instantaneously by crashing thunder; then the big rain fell. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The smile that played on Mr. Pickwick's features was instantaneously lost in a look of the most unbounded and wonder-stricken surprise. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- It will come instantaneously with the explosion of the charge and it won't disperse it. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The news of Sherman's success reached the North instantaneously, and set the country all aglow. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Mr. Bumble instantaneously turned back his collar again; laid his hat and stick upon a chair; and drew another chair up to the table. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Lighten any check, mitigate the destruction ever so little, and the number of the species will almost instantaneously increase to any amount. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Sound does not move instantaneously, but requires time for its transmission. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- In the former style burner, sufficient time is required to heat the metal top of the stove before the heat can be utilized, while in the latter, the heat is almost instantaneously effective. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Lydgate instantaneously stooped to pick up the chain. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Now, although Mr. Pickwick was not actuated by any definite object in putting out his head, it was instantaneously productive of a good effect. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The transmission of motion from particle to particle does not occur instantaneously, but requires time. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The little picture was so instantaneously dissolved by our going in, that one might have doubted whether it had ever been. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
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