How to Use quickie in a Sentence

quickie

noun
  • I would like to have a meeting. It'll be a quickie.
  • In the parlance of the times, this was known as a quickie divorce.
    Robert Goulder, Forbes, 18 June 2021
  • And a few quickies … Wentz had a catch with Jeffery during team drills.
    Jeff McLane, Philly.com, 13 June 2018
  • So if your guy is lying beside you, wake him up for a quickie.
    Cosmopolitan, 23 Mar. 2008
  • Of course, Lifetime already weighed in with its own quickie movie about the topic, but that only scratched the surface.
    Brian Lowry, CNN, 16 Mar. 2021
  • My fiance is down for quickies sometimes but not always.
    Dan Savage, Chicago Reader, 16 May 2018
  • Their quickie's cut short, so Dexter resumes his trip into town.
    Matt Cabral, EW.com, 8 Nov. 2021
  • Set in the late 1950s at a ranch house in Reno where women wait to finalize quickie divorces, the movie is full of characters from all walks of life looking for a fresh start.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 21 Nov. 2020
  • Bundchen closed on the house Oct. 6; their quickie divorce, filed in Glades County, became final Oct. 28.
    Madeleine Marr Miami Herald (tns), al, 10 Nov. 2022
  • The Red Sox coaches had to call their minor league counterparts to get quickie scouting reports.
    BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2021
  • No quickies, no one-night stands, no using and abusing each other since the mandated shelter-at-home took place.
    Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2020
  • What was a glossy finish has been beaten down to dullness by quickie carwashes, rough roads, and nasty weather?
    Jack Keebler, Car and Driver, 6 May 2022
  • Show your proof of vaccination and receive a free extra quickie game card.
    Mary Colurso | McOlurso@al.com, al, 1 June 2022
  • Waiting for the reception desk to be unmanned, then grabbing a key card for an illicit quickie with her lover.
    Colin Barrett, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Mar. 2022
  • To help sustain the lie, Horowitz was duty bound to deliver another quickie Trump book within six months of the lost election.
    Ronald Radosh, The New Republic, 5 May 2021
  • There he was promoted to director and tasked with cranking out low-budget quickies for the bottom half of double bills.
    Dennis Lim, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2017
  • That sadly includes not telling his parents about their quickie wedding.
    Ashley Ray-Harris, Vulture, 29 Nov. 2021
  • There’s one Swift record that nobody really wants to remember: her quickie six-song Christmas EP from 2008.
    Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 19 May 2021
  • To wit, this week, The Class by Taryn Toomey is offering quickie 15-minute classes focused on movement and breath through their virtual studio.
    Fiorella Valdesolo, Vogue, 1 Nov. 2020
  • Websites with quickie value estimators aren’t the way to determine the value of your home.
    Dallas News, 30 Aug. 2020
  • Try sipping ginger tea or making a gingery salad dressing for a quickie health boost.
    Good Housekeeping, 30 June 2020
  • If all that is too ambitious for the summer, the networks could get the folks who do Hallmark and Lifetime telepics to churn out some cost-effective pulp fiction or quickie biopics for the summer.
    Josef Adalian, Vulture, 1 July 2021
  • The rush-rush allows secret last-minute deals and opens holes for lobbyists to sneak in last-moment quickie amendments that make their corporate clients all too happy.
    Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 3 June 2021
  • Nevada later filled the gap, becoming known for quickie divorces.
    Barbara Spindel, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Pence's spokesman, Devin O'Malley, also rejected the quickie withdrawal claim made by the governor.
    Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, 29 July 2020
  • Also, Jalal sometimes stops off for a quickie with his younger mistress (Shaden Kanboura), a secret Waleed now feels complicit keeping.
    Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 May 2022
  • After performing her miracle, Amelia, high off her success, hopped into the MRI machine for a quickie.
    Patti Greco, Cosmopolitan, 29 Sep. 2017
  • His lasting memory was a quickie divorce in Key West where his ex-wife’s relinquishing of any right to the Panthers was such a talk-story the Panthers released a statement on it all.
    Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 14 May 2022
  • Couples have found the quickie ceremonies to be a point of stability with so much uncertainty.
    Kristen Bateman, WSJ, 22 Sep. 2020
  • In practice, those dueling goals have led to study intervals ranging from a protracted four minutes to a quickie 20 seconds.
    Gretchen Reynolds and New York Times, Star Tribune, 8 Jan. 2021

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