How to Use hastily in a Sentence

hastily

adverb
  • Fungi took hold of some vines, and had to be dealt with hastily.
    — Vivek Wadhwa, Fortune Europe, 19 Oct. 2024
  • Instead, he was hastily rushed away, and the pros took care of the job.
    — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 20 June 2021
  • Parts of the team were allowed to age, and the young blood was hastily sold.
    — Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Like so many cheap light fixtures that builders hastily slap on homes, these were too small.
    — Marni Jameson, Orlando Sentinel, 27 May 2022
  • Here are three strategies to combat the urge to shop hastily.
    — Nerdwallet, Boston Herald, 10 Dec. 2024
  • One suitcase between the three of us, hastily filled in the dark.
    — Molly Baz, Time, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Half the men leave, and the other half hastily set up a game of billiards.
    — Lincee Ray, EW.com, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Much of it looks hastily put-together; filler to keep the dancers busy.
    — Janine Parker, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Jelinek hastily asked for a ten-minute break, and the judge granted it.
    — William Finnegan, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
  • Many of these people are now sleeping in tents hastily erected on the rocky ground.
    — Raf Sanchez, NBC News, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The Jeju crew hastily move both of the levers that control thrust.
    — James Glanz, New York Times, 1 May 2026
  • Two teenagers meet at a party and fall truly, madly, hastily in love.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 8 May 2025
  • These are the solutions hastily fired off as the credits roll.
    — Elizabeth Pankova, The New Republic, 8 Oct. 2020
  • There are shell craters hastily filled in and boarded up buildings waiting to be pulled down.
    — WIRED, 10 July 2023
  • But hastily adding genes to the master list can pose risks, too, says Frankish.
    — Cassandra Willyard, Scientific American, 19 June 2018
  • The cops found his corpse wrapped in a garden hose; his crew hastily fled to San Diego.
    — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 8 Jan. 2023
  • The job was hastily offered to any and every teacher on staff, but nobody said yes.
    — Buddy Collings, The Orlando Sentinel, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Randy is obviously shaken by the news, but leaves hastily to go to school.
    — Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The first act is a rocky one, as the world and new cast of characters is hastily introduced.
    — Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 5 July 2025
  • The players gathered on the stage that had been assembled hastily near half court.
    — Greg Bishop, SI.com, 25 Mar. 2018
  • But the retaking plans had been hastily assembled, and turned out to be very lethal.
    — USA Today, 8 Sep. 2021
  • With limited time for a paint job before the race, his team hastily added the No.
    — Jim Ayello, Indianapolis Star, 10 Apr. 2018
  • All were clearly media adverse, jetting from the car to the venue hastily.
    — Barry Samaha, Harper's BAZAAR, 19 Dec. 2019
  • But the retaking plans had been hastily assembled, and turned out to be very lethal.
    — Michael Collins, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The all-dirt infield was a finger painting of browns because a city work crew hastily dragged over it.
    — Tod Leonard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 May 2017
  • It has already been hastily extended with short-term patches twice this year.
    — Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 10 June 2026
  • Amid fears of massive protests over the project, the ordinance was hastily adopted.
    — Greg Moran, sandiegouniontribune.com, 7 Mar. 2018
  • So the white band was hastily added to about forty thousand newsstand copies in New York.
    — Erin Overbey, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2021
  • Windscale’s two piles had been hastily built during the British atomic bomb project.
    — Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Last week, the family had hastily packed up the room — not for the first time, and probably not for the last.
    — Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2026

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