Sentence examples for once quickly from inspiring English sources

And I nodded once, quickly, and she grabbed me and laughed and all the girls I hated turned to look, but what could they do?

In Bombay they had to stop putting their dead on the stone Towers of Silence because the birds that once quickly consumed them were vanishing.

I've seen them kill only once: quickly and with great efficiency in the air, breaking the victim's neck with a sharp shake of the head.

Except that Glass missed his spot once, quickly refound it, stayed in for a couple of minutes and then lost it so catastrophically that he must have been tempted to give up.

The receptionist will introduce herself once, quickly, and then address you by your first name for the remainder of your stay with a camaraderie that indicates that she thinks you know her name, too.

Mrs. Jamieson turned her head once, quickly — she had all she could do to maneuver her car through the ruts and puddles the rain had made in the gravel — but she didn't lift a hand off the wheel to wave, she didn't spot Carla.

As Chicago grew rapidly in the 1880s, places that were once rural quickly became part of the city.

She falls over once but quickly jumps up and runs about some more.

But although "Alice and Martin" is always engrossing, it moves at once too quickly and too slowly.

The towns that are now declining were once growing quickly, denuding other settlements, often in the countryside.

Having been broken once, Serena quickly returned to form, winning sixteen of the match's final twenty-two points.