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quickly

If you do something quickly or something happens quickly, it happens in a very short time. Please close the door quickly. You'll let the cat out. I hope the train gets here quickly. I'm late already.

quickly

with rapid movements he works quickly (= promptly, quick) with little or no delay the rescue squad arrived promptly come here, quick! (= cursorily) without taking pains he looked cursorily through the magazine

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Simple sentences

Dry wood burns quickly.
Time goes by quickly when you're having fun.
We got the meeting over with quickly.
We walked more quickly than usual.
Please do it quickly.
I ran as quickly as I could.
Please come home as quickly as possible.
Onions cook more quickly than potatoes.
The drug acted quickly.
The child is learning quickly.
Rabbits breed quickly.
Written too quickly, the letter had many mistakes.
You must get ready quickly.
Ancient customs are dying out quickly today.
A small forest fire can easily spread and quickly become a great conflagration.
The time has passed very quickly.
Make sure that the complaints are dealt with as quickly as possible.
The house did not suffer much damage because the fire was quickly put out.
The family assimilated quickly into their new environment.
Simply follow the instructions below, and in no time you will be printing full color documents just as easily and quickly as black and white.
Sound travels very quickly.
Plants grow quickly after rain.
Unless you make a decision quickly, the opportunity will be lost.
My vacation went by quickly.
Care aged him quickly.
The problem was how to drive quickly and safely to the house.
The news quickly spread.

Movie subtitles

I'm surprised at how quickly you decided, brother.
But unless we decide how to respond to this quickly.
I need to go to the office quickly.
It's not healing quickly.
Geez, how could Hyeongbang choose the line that quickly?
So much so quickly: Master jia.
Quickly!
And you know how quickly T.J.'s gonna turn around.
As quickly as you can, can you bring us the check?
Honestly, you'd be surprised how quickly the kids get used to the appliances.
When I spoke to your father he thanked me for doing it quickly and quietly because of the money he'll save.
I can't believe how quickly that imploded.
At last, the astronomers have found the shell and quickly shut themselves in the interior.
The news that the sharing out of the loot was going to take place in the empty house spread quickly among the gangsters.
How on earth can they move camp that quickly?
These people are hotheads a bit quick-tempered, but they cool down as quickly.
If that's true, then we need to find out what it is we're dealing with, and quickly.
Lebel recovers quickly and returns to work, during which he is disturbed by a visit by Weyler's wife.
It's sad that the days pass so quickly, that I have to spend them away from you!
So quickly you forget such important things?
There, take my hands, kiss them quickly!
The chief ordered to quickly collect two hundred heads of cattle from the nearest settlements.
Please, open this door, quickly!
All in a day's work. Now let's see you get back on your feet quickly.
Shoot quickly, or I'll take that plaything away from you.
Come on, quickly.
Run downstairs. quickly!
You should quickly go and train your physical strength.
Quickly call an ambulance!
Go on inside. Quickly.
You came up with that way too quickly.
Take this hat quickly to the Marquise de Belfort.
Quickly take my clothes and flee. I will die in your place.
No, I should better place it in things that will go up quickly.
Change quickly!
The fire burned very quickly.
Let's leave quickly.

News and current affairs

This dream quickly faded when the Cold War divided the world into two hostile blocs.
Instead, the crisis stemmed from the US sub-prime debacle, which quickly dragged the global economy into its deepest recession since the 1930's.
Assuming that a plan passes muster, the money to support it would quickly be disbursed.
The CAP quickly came to be seen as the jewel in the crown of the European project.
After cutting down a swath of rainforest, soils are often quickly leached of their nutrients so that they cannot sustain crops or nutritious grasses for livestock.
So, not surprisingly, economists are not in a good position to forecast how quickly it will end, either.
After the ensuing financial thunderstorm died down, the sun would come out again very quickly.
Consequently, external shocks quickly expose their vulnerability.
It is during the war after the war that the occupier's inferiority is revealed, with constant reinforcements increasing the number of targets for the insurgents far more quickly than the occupier can adapt to the changing battlefield.
A team that is unable to keep going at full speed for the full 90 (or more) minutes, switch from defense to offense quickly with the whole team, and maintain control of the ball to restrict their opponents' movements won't stand much of a chance.
Unless other countries become more willing to step forward for the common good, a post-American world could quickly become a far more frightening environment than what it would replace.
But these infant giants are quickly threatened with eclipse by even newer enterprises.
Without them, fast-growing seaweed quickly monopolizes space on the reef, preventing restoration of healthy quantities of coral cover.
So we would all spare ourselves an awful lot of trouble if McCain's brainchild were buried as quickly as possible.
This dream quickly faded when the Cold War divided the world into two hostile blocs. But in some ways the 1945 consensus, in the West, was strengthened by Cold War politics.
Problems might originate at the national level, but, owing to monetary union, they quickly threaten the stability of the entire eurozone banking system.
While Thein Sein would undoubtedly wish to see the myriad economic and political sanctions imposed on Burma quickly lifted, it is too soon for a general easing of such measures.
Some Western countries - such as Greece - had fragile government accounts from the outset and tipped quickly into persistent crisis mode.
Against that background, it is hard to believe that we will quickly return to the heady growth in financial assets, credit, and risk we saw from the 1970's to 2007.
Meanwhile, the Global Forum on Migration and Development, established in 2007, has quickly become an important means of fostering knowledge and partnerships.
While the US initially demonstrated prudence in word and deed, it quickly understood that the revolts truly reflected the will of the people and acted to align itself with the democratic cause.
McCain is a man of strong traditional values who prides himself on his willingness to act quickly and decisively, which he sought to do during the negotiations on the bailout by suspending his campaign to return to Washington.
Whatever goodwill towards the US prevailed after September 11 was quickly squandered.
They buried the bad mortgages in complicated instruments, buried them so deep that no one knew exactly how badly they were impaired, and no one could calculate how to re-price them quickly.
In Iraq alone, the administration misestimated the threat of WMD, failed to plan adequately for the occupation, and then proved unable to adjust quickly when things went wrong.

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