How to Use hastily in a Sentence

hastily

adverb

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• But the retaking plans had been hastily assembled, and turned out to be very lethal.
  — USA Today, 8 Sep. 2021
• And some appear to have not been well-maintained and to have been hastily put on the market to take advantage of the lack of listings.
  — Jim Buchta, Star Tribune, 5 June 2021
• 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
• She was hastily sent home without any of her team gear, including her coat and hats.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Mar. 2022
• Milak won the the gold by about two body lengths despite having to hastily change suits before the race, which cost him a chance to break his own world record.
  — Paul Newberry, Anchorage Daily News, 28 July 2021
• 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
• The House hastily passed the article with the support of all Democrats and 10 Republicans on Jan. 13.
  — Susan Ferrechio, Washington Examiner, 25 Jan. 2021
• That isn’t to say that resources are used hastily or wastefully at larger companies, but the resources do exist.
  — Kathleen Hurley, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024