How to Use instantaneous in a Sentence

instantaneous

adjective

• We got an almost instantaneous response from the company.
• But the event wasn’t instantaneous – for the first 18 hours or so, the volcano belched smoke and debris into the air.
  — Michael Irving, New Atlas, 19 July 2024
• Beauty is one of the most powerful—and instantaneous—ways to claim your space in the world.
  — Martine Thompson, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 Mar. 2023
• To her, there was no touch as instantaneous and intuitive as the gaze.
  — Han Kang, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
• Its effect on them was instantaneous flight at the top of their speed in all directions from the scene of the conflict.
  — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 21 Feb. 2022
• As the story goes, the chemistry within the group was instantaneous.
  — Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 5 Mar. 2024
• The great lie about China wasn’t that good things would come from its enrichment, but that the good things would be instantaneous — and easy.
  — Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 16 Aug. 2019
• The effects are instantaneous: smooth, clear skin that glows.
  — ELLE, 18 May 2022
• The protests were instantaneous; there was chanting (though, to be fair, there always is), shirt burning, and signs.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 8 Oct. 2021
• This was where Kail and Miranda first met in 2002—and the chemistry was instantaneous.
  — Adam Green, Vogue, 10 Sep. 2019
• But with the help of Gemini, the process could be nearly instantaneous.
  — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 14 May 2024
• There are very few moments in your life that the before and after is instantaneous.
  — Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Mar. 2023
• The engagement with the road, the feedback through the steering, the instantaneous torque -- there is romance with an electric car.
  — Morgan Korn, ABC News, 3 Sep. 2023
• The response was instantaneous — but had nothing to do with the substance of Trott’s concerns.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Dec. 2019
• The response was instantaneous — but had nothing to do with the substance of Mr. Trott’s concerns.
  — Jonathan Martin, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2019
• As these thoughts passed through my mind, a nightmare vision came to me, complete and instantaneous.
  — Yael Goldstein-Love, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2023
• When owner Stine Aasland debuted her stand at the 2018 fair, the long lines were instantaneous, and with good reason.
  — Rick Nelson, Star Tribune, 27 Aug. 2020
• At a depth of more than two miles beneath the surface, even a small hull breach would cause an instantaneous implosion.
  — Michael Peck, Popular Mechanics, 23 June 2023
• Email/texting is easy, free, and instantaneous, unlike writing a note and having to pay postage and put it in a mailbox.
  — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 18 Jan. 2020
• The red flags popped up after the team arrived in Detroit because the tests don't give instantaneous results.
  — Amie Just | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 23 Oct. 2020
• The video shows a biplane soaring over warships of the U.S. Navy and creating an instantaneous wall of smoke large enough to hide a fleet behind.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 5 Oct. 2020
• The instantaneous and accurate results are what does it for me.
  — Zane Pickett, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
• Throttle response is instantaneous, and the engine always rewards prods of the pedal with a surge in the back and a trombone-like blast from the exhaust.
  — Don Schroeder, Car and Driver, 28 June 2020
• The chemistry between the weed-loving rappers was so instantaneous that the duo became a franchise in its own right.
  — Al Shipley, SPIN, 16 June 2023
• Tatis did not have to run terribly far, but the slow speed of the grounder and Markakis’ decent running speed up the line forced an instantaneous mid-air decision.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 July 2019
• Pose with a fashionable cause and the reward is instantaneous.
  — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 29 Dec. 2020
• The slap’s near-instantaneous minting into coin didn’t come as a surprise.
  — Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2022
• Both Clover and Jotter described that coming out of the river, this instantaneous longing to go back.
  — Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Nov. 2023
• With the synergy between them, the desire to work together was instantaneous.
  — Tiffany Leigh, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2024
• That relief likely wouldn’t be instantaneous but would probably take many months to wind through the economy, economists said.
  — Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 6 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024