How to Use hastily in a Sentence

hastily

adverb
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  • Parts of the team were allowed to age, and the young blood was hastily sold.
    — Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Instead, he was hastily rushed away, and the pros took care of the job.
    — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 20 June 2021
  • Half the men leave, and the other half hastily set up a game of billiards.
    — Lincee Ray, EW.com, 4 Apr. 2022
  • This was not some hastily drawn-up play in the sand on a playground.
    — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 18 Nov. 2019
  • Down on the platform, a call sheet was hastily sketched out.
    — Dan Greene, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
  • The cops found his corpse wrapped in a garden hose; his crew hastily fled to San Diego.
    — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 8 Jan. 2023
  • Fungi took hold of some vines, and had to be dealt with hastily.
    — Vivek Wadhwa, Fortune Europe, 19 Oct. 2024
  • The architects of those laws say the U.S. should not act too hastily.
    — Billy Perrigo, Time, 22 Jan. 2021
  • Much of it looks hastily put-together; filler to keep the dancers busy.
    — Janine Parker, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Ani had some need to wash blood out of her clothing hastily.
    — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 23 Aug. 2019
  • Here are three strategies to combat the urge to shop hastily.
    — Nerdwallet, Boston Herald, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Keep in Mind: These can be fragile when pulling them up and down too hastily.
    — L. Daniela Alvarez, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Feb. 2023
  • So the white band was hastily added to about forty thousand newsstand copies in New York.
    — Erin Overbey, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2021
  • Like so many cheap light fixtures that builders hastily slap on homes, these were too small.
    — Marni Jameson, Orlando Sentinel, 27 May 2022
  • A lot of generative AI projects hastily born over the past year may not have long to live.
    — Will Knight, WIRED, 7 Feb. 2024
  • That’s when she’d pulled out her phone, hastily called Jeanine.
    — Elizabeth Poliner, chicagotribune.com, 20 July 2019
  • Many of these people are now sleeping in tents hastily erected on the rocky ground.
    — Raf Sanchez, NBC News, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The barriers were hastily put up and weren't locked in place before Trump came out.
    — Kelsey Walsh, ABC News, 25 Nov. 2023
  • These are the solutions hastily fired off as the credits roll.
    — Elizabeth Pankova, The New Republic, 8 Oct. 2020
  • Adie’s body was hastily buried along the shores of the country of Fife, in an ignominious spot.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Enter El Salvador’s Bitcoin law, which was hastily passed in the middle of the night of June 8.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 16 July 2021
  • The killings saw plans for Biden’s visit hastily revamped.
    — Rob Crilly, Washington Examiner, 19 Mar. 2021
  • Lopez left home for good, hastily throwing some things in a bag and sleeping for a time on the sofa of the Phil Black studio.
    — Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 7 Feb. 2022
  • But the Navy gave Seavenes a new posting, and the family hastily left town.
    — oregonlive, 16 Sep. 2019
  • And, for the most part (until garbage time), Minshew did not hastily fall back on his checkdowns.
    — Andy Benoit, SI.com, 10 Sep. 2019
  • Still, there are glimpses of that same kind of spunk here, as when Dad — aka The Voice — comes over the radio and someone hastily shoves the device off a shelf.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 10 Oct. 2021
  • There are shell craters hastily filled in and boarded up buildings waiting to be pulled down.
    — WIRED, 10 July 2023
  • But according to the Cristman and his lawyers, it was done hastily and without care for its users.
    — Sam Fogel, Detroit Free Press, 8 June 2021
  • In one case, a potluck luncheon among co-workers was hastily canceled for fear it would be seen as a way to promote cultural diversity.
    — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 5 Feb. 2025
  • What followed has become legend, with Brawn hastily installing a Mercedes engine and showing up to preseason testing in Barcelona for the 2009 season with the lowest of expectations.
    — Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 6 Feb. 2025

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