How to Use hastily in a Sentence

hastily

adverb

• Half the men leave, and the other half hastily set up a game of billiards.
  — Lincee Ray, EW.com, 4 Apr. 2022
• The cops found his corpse wrapped in a garden hose; his crew hastily fled to San Diego.
  — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 8 Jan. 2023
• Much of it looks hastily put-together; filler to keep the dancers busy.
  — Janine Parker, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2022
• Keep in Mind: These can be fragile when pulling them up and down too hastily.
  — L. Daniela Alvarez, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Feb. 2023
• 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
• 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
• There are shell craters hastily filled in and boarded up buildings waiting to be pulled down.
  — WIRED, 10 July 2023
• The fairy, interrupted by her return, had tucked the infant hastily back, but with its head toward the foot of the crib.
  — Robert Shackleton, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
• Penrose and Miller hastily boarded a ship back to England.
  — Town & Country, 23 Mar. 2022
• In the ocean, a sea turtle hastily dips back below the surface after coming up for air.
  — Avery Schuyler Nunn, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Aug. 2023
• As the two walked up the fairway, Woods walked by him and slid a tampon in his hand, which Thomas hastily threw down before the duo started laughing.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 18 Feb. 2023
• On the flip side, there are hazards to moving too hastily and giving inflation a change to reignite.
  — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2024
• With her best friend Ali (Alin Uzun), Georgie spends most of her time stealing bicycles, which the pair hastily repaint and sell for a few pounds.
  — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2023
• Sixty yards away, the rest of the family were hastily reburied in a shallow grave along with their servants.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 14 Nov. 2022
• Instead, the clock continued to run, and on third down, the Colts hastily called a Jonathan Taylor run up the middle, which barely got back to the line of scrimmage.
  — Michael Arinze, Chicago Tribune, 4 Dec. 2022
• Gil Clark and his crew scrambled to find scraps of paper and pieces of cardboard and hastily wrote out the extra 151 race numbers in grease pencil.
  — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 19 Dec. 2022
• The county hastily opened a conference room and closed-circuit video feed for observers.
  — Mckenzie Funk, ProPublica, 8 Mar. 2024
• There were no sidewalks — only boards hastily laid over the pervasive muck.
  — Denise Kiernan, Rolling Stone, 17 July 2023
• And early this year, the majority school board hastily passed a resolution to close three schools for this year, the 2022 school year.
  — Bynadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 27 Apr. 2022
• Many people had fled with a few possessions hastily stuffed into a couple of garbage bags, at most.
  — Roger Cohen Nanna Heitmann, New York Times, 12 June 2023
• Officials here, 90 miles north of Kyiv, buried hundreds of civilians in makeshift coffins and hastily dug trenches.
  — Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2022
• The crowd now included reps from record companies and booking agencies, who’d hastily flown or driven to see what all the fuss was about.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 17 Nov. 2023
• Another video, sent at 8:12 p.m., showed part of the group, including at least five minors, walking hastily away from plumes of smoke.
  — Matina Stevis-Gridneff, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2023
• The initial plan was vague, and early renderings of this new utopia appeared to have been hastily created with AI.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2024
• Stanford Blatch was hastily written off the show when the actor who portrayed him, Willie Garson, died in the middle of production.
  — Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2023
• The three top Twitter executives were hastily shuttled from the building, the people said.
  — Elizabeth Dwoskin, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2022
• But look closer—some wipe sleep from their eyes, others hastily pack away make up bags, and a few may unwind a travel pillow from around their neck.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2023
• Seemingly having run out of time and patience, Graham hastily thanks Grant for his time.
  — Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 12 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024