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Meaning instant meaning
What does instant mean?
Definitions in simple English
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Synonyms instant synonyms
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Topics instant topics
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What words refer to disliking something?don't like dislike (v) take a disliking to take an instant dislike to have a healthy dislike for not be fond of not keen on not be crazy about not think much of not be someone's cup of tea not be to your taste not be to your liking not be your thing not be your type have no time for not take kindly to don't care for look down on turn up your nose at be unhappy with hold in disfavor feel unfavorable toward be displeased with
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What words indicate that two things happen at the same time?
Examples instant examples
How do I use instant in a sentence?
Simple sentences
She always gives an instant answer.
I don't know. It all happened in an instant.
The instant he opened the door, he smelt something burning.
The medicine gave instant relief.
The instant the girl saw her mother, she burst out crying.
The instant he saw the policeman, he ran away.
The instant I saw him I knew he was angry.
She does not take a rest for an instant.
He turned pale the instant he saw her.
At that instant it exploded with a great noise.
Right at that instant, the bus stopped.
I knew her the instant I saw her.
He disappeared in an instant.
Instant noodles are a staple among college students.
Last night I was too tired to cook a proper meal, so I just ate instant noodles.
After years of failed experiments, I can say I've finally discovered the only and absolutely flawless, instant cure for hiccups!
A Greek frappe is made from instant coffee, water, and ice cubes.
Mary wakes an instant later to find herself lying on her back.
The jet plane took off in an instant.
I want to buy a coffee maker. I can't drink instant coffee any longer. It's disgusting.
When I was a child, I liked to drink weak instant coffee.
Let me know the instant Tom arrives.
Come here this instant.
In an instant, everything changed.
Movie subtitles
Come out of my mother's body this instant!
Rashy nips, instant classic.
Yeah, thanks for the instant replay, but I'm still picking the cranberries out of my ears, so I'm good.
We saw him for an instant.a gray shadow.and he was gone!
In an instant it had blown a quinsy into his throat.
Helius, in this last instant, do you want to shame me as a woman?
And I wouldn't hesitate one instant to ruin your reputation. Like that.
I never took my glasses from his face except for an instant to let him see mine.
Perhaps that was the instant he smiled at me.
Why don't you hit yourself over the head with a hammer. the instant you get up in the morning?
Leave this instant!
Everything may change in an instant.
Mrs. Crosbie killed a man, yes.. butundercircumstances where no courageous.. self-respectingwomanwouldhesitate for one instant to do the same thing.
And then a cloud came upon the moon. and hovered an instant like a dark hand before a face.
And that's what caused the storm to die down in an instant.
You can't claim for an instant.
And I wouldn't hesitate one instant to ruin your reputation.
If this happens again, it will mean instant dismissal. Get to work!
He who, for an instant, makes them forget misery, fatigue, anxiety and death, who makes them laugh when they should cry, who gives them the strength to live, we love as a benefactor.
From the very first instant I saw you, I knew.
Put me down this instant.
In that single instant, you approached the epitome of your art.
If you don't come with me this instant, I shall run amok.
I'm going to leave here now, this instant.
Stop this instant!
Sunako, go to the ship this instant!
No one under this roof shall show repulsion or fear, on pain of my instant displeasure.
And then a cloud came upon the moon and hovered an instant like a dark hand before a face.
We're both facing it this instant.
If such a thing should happen again with you. or any of the others, it means instant dismissal.
This instant. I'm not going to let you out of my sight this time. not till we're married.
He was standing by this pillar an instant ago.
I was not angry since I came to France until this instant.
Drop it this instant!
You knew it the instant our eyes first met, and everything within us met. and you know it now.
News and current affairs
Above all, we need to show patience with the new governments of the countries we hope to see evolving toward democracy, and avoid the tendency to expect instant gratification.
While it may seem hard to imagine that the speculative tide might ever turn against China, exchange-rate pressures can turn in an instant.
But, faced with South Korea's shining democracy and booming economy, the Chinese model is irrelevant to the North: following it would mean acknowledging the South's supremacy on the Korean Peninsula, and thus an instant loss of legitimacy.
As consumers they are used to instant gratification.
It made an instant impact, but not in the way we hoped.
The formal trappings of a real court always seem better than instant justice, even if the end result is also death.
The difference between the two schemes is that mine would provide instant relief to Italy and Spain.
Yet everyone thinks that the country's independence will be lost in an instant when farms can be sold to other Europeans, a condition of EU membership.
In a globalized world where instant communications drives economic success, Ghana a nation of 19 million people has only 250,000 fixed phone lines.
In Ghana, a new instant maize-based product, enriched with vitamins and minerals, is the first of its kind on the market, owing to its affordability and natural integration with breastfeeding.
Today we are fighting the first war in the era of e-mail, blogs, blackberries, instant messaging, digital cameras, the Internet, mobile phones, talk radio, and 24-hour news.
In a single instant of unfathomable fury, his moment of glory was transformed into one of madness and a curse.
Despite the dollar's instant credibility, however, it took more than a decade for America's currency to match Britain's as an international medium of exchange.
Such attacks on immigration might offer some instant political gratification, but their net result is to cleave societies whose cohesion is already seriously challenged by the economic crisis.
Unfortunately, there is no instant solution.
A lesson emerges: with the deepening of the economic crisis, on the one hand, and instant global connectivity, on the other, what was accepted yesterday is regarded as intolerable today.
Competition policy, however, faces great difficulty in dealing with industries in which technical breakthroughs can create apparently instant monopolies.
Though these values cannot be imposed by force or manufactured like instant coffee, the world is likely to be more peaceful, stable, and prosperous the more that countries treat their own citizens decently.
If they do not follow through on their intentions, promises, and commitments, access to information and instant communication is such that empty promises simply will no longer persuade most people.
But Kan stumbled out of the gate by calling, during his first press conference, for a weaker yen - a statement that drew an instant rebuke from Hatoyama.
NEWPORT BEACH - After instant and seemingly coordinated fanfare in Europe and the United States, the proposal for a European Union-US free-trade area has been generating little media attention.
Wily and resourceful, Afghans were quick to take advantage of the ignorance, goodwill and craving for instant results of the program's officers.