HASTILY


Meaning of HASTILY in English

adverb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ VERB

assemble

The Wall had been hastily assembled .

The men at its bank are cutting bamboo, hastily assembling rafts, pushing their women and children into the stream.

She hastily assembled a kettle full of water, cups and tea things, on to a tray.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Alison sat back, shifting hastily away.

I hastily dress, but there is limit to how fast you can put on two or three layers of clothes.

Later a hastily assembled identification parade of three sat before me.

Max consumed his parkin hastily and left.

Nell feverishly ripped the covers off three of the files, hastily stuffing the insides into one of her empty field-dressing pouches.

The lights were swung round, the Nagra tape recorder switched on and the camera hastily placed on its tripod and pointed.

Then the older one bends over the younger and kisses him on the lips, hastily and shyly.

Too many official schedules for 10 a.m. had been hastily altered for anyone to be able to hide the fact.

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