How to Use hastily in a Sentence

hastily

adverb
  • These are the solutions hastily fired off as the credits roll.
    Elizabeth Pankova, The New Republic, 8 Oct. 2020
  • Apartments and hotels hastily built to house roustabouts in North Dakota and remote parts of Texas have emptied.
    Alexander Osipovich, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2020
  • While supporters and athletes work to save the sports, Regent Michael Hsu said the cuts are being made too hastily.
    Rachel Blount, Star Tribune, 2 Oct. 2020
  • Now, at Northview Heights, a balloon release to honor the grandmothers’ grief had been hastily arranged for the evening.
    New York Times, 7 Oct. 2020
  • The message was eventually relayed to Watson that Jokic was concerned the 20-year-old was spending too hastily.
    Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 20 Oct. 2024
  • So the district, hearing parents' pushback, hastily canceled its plans to use the standardized online test to give teachers a read on students' skill levels after spotty learning last spring.
    oregonlive, 30 Sep. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • If, for example, there is pressure to move more and more patients through a clinic, the incentive could be to do things—such as measure blood pressure—more and more hastily.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2024

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