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 | [e-mail], 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

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024