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Example sentences for "immediately"

Lexicographically close words:
immeasurable; immeasurably; immediacy; immediate; immediatelie; immediateness; immediatlie; immediatly; immegiately; immemor
  1. She looked at the hand Ynys held out through the obscurity, and almost immediately dropped it.

  2. And the call for disputation was immediately echoed.

  3. Immediately the possibilities for play are greatly multiplied.

  4. A member of the household came into the room, whereupon he immediately broke out in wild screaming and became very much agitated.

  5. This will satisfy most children for a considerable time, but some children will immediately ask, "Where is that little room?

  6. I rose immediately and begged her to accept my Chair.

  7. It resulted immediately in the alliance with France, so long and ardently desired, without which this country might not have won independence.

  8. Colonel William Byrd visited him immediately after his marriage with Mildred Gregory, and spoke of him as "the top man of the place.

  9. From Eltham he proceeded immediately on pressing business with Congress at Philadelphia, and not until Nov.

  10. The counties were canvassed for these, and they were immediately forwarded.

  11. This should in my opinion be immediately sent either by Congress or your Excellency to Sir Guy Carleton.

  12. I am going immediately to examine what relates to the customs and duties, which hurt commerce.

  13. I have written to him upon the subject, and doubt not that the money will be paid immediately upon your application.

  14. Mr Oswald went to London to carry this information; returned soon, and was immediately followed by Mr Grenville, the intimate friend of Mr Fox.

  15. I enclose a few out of many articles, which immediately suggest themselves to me.

  16. I am sure no gentleman can hope that these should be immediately paid out of an empty treasury.

  17. I am to request, and have strong hopes, that when Mr Smith shall have deposited these bills with you, your Excellency will advance that sum, so that he may immediately ship it to my address.

  18. I have this day presented the commission, with a draft of the necessary resolutions thereon to Congress, and I doubt not that they will immediately pass, when the letters and papers you request will be put into your hands.

  19. In that case, the America will immediately join the fleet, in conformity with the wishes of Congress.

  20. Mr Morris will deliver you the commission of the Chevalier d'Annemours; when you shall have made the alterations and returned it, I will immediately lay it before Congress.

  21. He heard first a single, fierce, angry, and savage bark, which was immediately followed by a yell of agony.

  22. The period relating more immediately to the Crusades which I at last fixed upon was that at which the warlike character of Richard I.

  23. Richard, when they entered his apartment, immediately exclaimed, "So ho!

  24. Searcher of Hearts, by permitting the world and worldly passions to reassume the reins even immediately after a solemn address to Heaven!

  25. Immediately afterwards, Mayenne struck camp and marched away, leaving Henry master of the situation.

  26. And the cry immediately spread through the whole kingdom, and, I suppose over all Europe, 'How charming it was to see Solon and Sophocles embrace.

  27. He was immediately seized and quickly recognised as General Clément Thomas, a brave officer who had done gallant service during the siege.

  28. The popular outbreak here briefly chronicled is of interest from the fact that it immediately followed the success of the insurrection in England and the execution of Charles I.

  29. A young Russian immediately presented himself, and asked him what he wanted.

  30. Lannoy took it with a show of the profoundest respect, and immediately gave him another in its place.

  31. The savages, seeing the impossibility of immediately gathering and mounting their horses for flight, cunningly sent a flag of truce to solicit a parley.

  32. Mr. Carson and his noble-hearted boy immediately resumed their journey, and after five days of hard riding reached Fort Bent.

  33. The horses were immediately both hobbled and picketed, while all eyes were directed to a wild-looking band approaching in the distance.

  34. Mr. Carson speaking of this adventure modestly writes: "I am certain that if the Indians had been charged immediately on our arrival, Mrs. White would have been saved.

  35. Friendly demonstrations immediately took the place of preparations for a bloody fight.

  36. Immediately an attachment sprang up between them, which grew increasingly strong through many subsequent years.

  37. Cacasotte gave the preconcerted signal, and immediately the robber near him was struggling in the water.

  38. The rest of the gang were ordered immediately to leave the camp.

  39. Here they were, of course, kindly received by their countrymen, and all their wants were immediately and abundantly supplied.

  40. The rest immediately fled, but before they could reach a place of safety three more were struck down by the balls of those who had followed Carson.

  41. He was then directed to return immediately across the continent as bearer of important dispatches.

  42. A party of forty men was immediately fitted out, under the command of Kit Carson, to go to the hidden trail and follow it till the haunts of the Indians were discovered.

  43. Captain Lee became acquainted with Kit Carson, and immediately appreciated his unusual excellencies as a companion in an enterprise so arduous and perilous, as that in which he was engaged.

  44. These two men were immediately arrested, as robbers and murderers.

  45. The parties were immediately on the most friendly terms.

  46. He immediately sought an out of the way place, where he might effectually secrete himself until night.

  47. Immediately after delivery the cord is tied and cut across with a bamboo knife.

  48. The Kenyah village frequently consists of a single long house (and with the Sea Dayaks this is invariably the case), and it is in many cases perched on a high steep bank immediately above the river.

  49. Or the boat is paddled to the foot of a small rapid; the fisherman springs out and runs to the head of the rapid, and casts his net in the still water immediately above it where fish frequently congregate.

  50. He will send for those immediately concerned and patiently hear out their version of the incident.

  51. In their fall these giants throw down the trees standing immediately below them on the hillside; these, falling in turn against their neighbours, bring them down.

  52. If all this is accomplished without the intervention of unfavourable omens, they return home to report progress; but immediately return to the hut and remain there.

  53. Upon these joists, transversely to them, are laid a number of flat strips which immediately support the floor planks; these are kept in place by their own weight.

  54. About midday Tama Bulan and his followers, in full war costume, announced their intention of moving by bursting into the war-cry, a tremendous roar which was immediately answered by the people in the houses.

  55. The pregnant woman goes on with her work up to the moment of labour and resumes it almost immediately afterwards.

  56. I have known one who became a sudden professor of Greek immediately upon application of the left-hand page of the Cambridge Homer to his eye.

  57. Partridge immediately declared it was the finest place he had ever been in.

  58. At first it dreaded my approach to its web, but at last it became so familiar as to take a fly out of my hand; and upon my touching any part of the web, would immediately leave its hole, prepared either for a defense or an attack.

  59. Immediately there was heard so loud a crash as if heaven were burst asunder.

  60. This sudden partiality made all the county immediately see the sheriff also was become a slave to the fine widow.

  61. The two girls took hold of one another, one acting gentleman, the other lady; three or four more pairs of girls immediately joined them, and they began a waltz.

  62. Then Corydon spat, and immediately his love said: 'I can spit farther than thet.

  63. Immediately a great shout of laughter broke from the group, and she heard them positively screaming till she got into her own house.

  64. It was immediately taken up by a dozen more, and they all yelled it out: 'Knocked 'em in the Old Kent Road.

  65. The men had fallen out, but several girls had put themselves in position, in couples, standing face to face; and immediately the music struck up, they began.

  66. After finding his way out of the station, Edward stopped an instant to look around and immediately he was surrounded by a lot of cabmen yelling, gesticulating and wanting to take hold of some of the boy's parcels.

  67. She immediately gave him two hundred dollars, which he accepted after much hesitation.

  68. After an hour or so of conversation she told him that she could speak French, and immediately proceeded to talk that language, to his astonishment, and he mildly reproached her for not having spoken that language before.

  69. There was no time for me to hide, because he immediately saw me and shouted to them behind to come on quickly.

  70. It was for his hospitable treatment of the Duke that Mr. Thynne was immediately afterwards deprived of the command of the Wiltshire Militia.

  71. I ventured to beg before their trial that they would immediately begin to use whatever interest they might be able to command in order to get their sentence (which was certain) commuted.

  72. Now, I say, considering what was immediately to befall us, the passage which my father read and expounded that morning was in a manner truly prophetic.

  73. It is also currently reported, and everywhere believed, that the Duke of Monmouth intends immediately to embark and cross the sea, with the design of raising the country in rebellion.

  74. After two years we did receive a letter from him, as you shall immediately learn.

  75. After our advance into northern France I immediately ordered that art treasures be protected.

  76. I sought to convince him that it was out of the question for me, almost immediately after William the Great had closed his eyes after a blessed reign, to stain the first years of my Government with the blood of my own people.

  77. Have Privy Councilor X come here immediately from the Foreign Office!

  78. When I learned of it, I immediately sought information about it from Herr von Bethmann.

  79. I immediately summoned Field Marshal von Hindenburg and the Quartermaster General, General Groener.

  80. I immediately wrote down this important talk at the time it occurred.

  81. The commanders of the troops which were summoned immediately made reports on the situation as they had found it.

  82. Furthermore, Germany, immediately after the war, unreservedly threw open her archives, whereas the enemy alliance has taken good care so far not to follow such an example.

  83. Concerning this visit, which was characterized by great cordiality on both sides, I immediately jotted down some notes, which recently came into my possession again.

  84. Therefore it seemed to us wise to acquiesce in the suggestion of this strong group, in order that it might not--should we decline--turn immediately to England and cause the entry of the latter into the combination.

  85. The English officers in charge immediately prepared to take us on board, and before long we were all safe and sound on deck.

  86. In spite of the wide differences in the moral stamp of all these men, I believe that during the solemn moments that immediately preceded the first shot a thought of God came to every mortal there.

  87. And immediately after there was a crash; but it was only the breaking of crockery caused by the sudden stoppage.

  88. Mashing the root, they throw it into the quiet coves of the river, when almost immediately the fish rise to the surface, first the little fry and then the larger specimens.

  89. The woman goes into the woods alone, and on her return washes herself and new-born babe in the river; then the husband immediately takes to his bed for eight days, during which time the wife serves him on the choicest dainties she can procure.

  90. Meat putrifies in this climate (of the Tapajos) in less than twenty-four hours, and salting is of no use unless the pieces are cut in thin slices and dried immediately in the sun.

  91. Upon presenting the governor with a vest, he immediately cut off the buttons, and, dividing the cloth into four parts, shared it with his fellows.

  92. Footnote 87: Immediately south of Cotopaxi, the Cordillera consists of paramos sown with lakes and morasses, and is rarely covered with snow.

  93. Ten pairs of hands were immediately placed at her disposal, where half the number would have served.

  94. Mr Ruthven immediately laid his letters on the table, and turned round.

  95. Norman the mathematician was immediately seized with a perverse desire to count the panes, and scandalised Graeme by communicating to her the result of his calculation, just as her father rose up to begin.

  96. A letter written by his uncle immediately after a partial recovery from an illness, a return of which, his physicians assured him, must prove fatal, set the matter before him in its true light.

  97. He came in just, before tea, and left when we left, immediately after.

  98. He thought that the paper should have been suppressed by the police at its very first announcement; "the measure neglected at the beginning is to be taken immediately and the paper is to be prohibited.

  99. The question, whence this variety, admits in its turn only of the alternative: either it was immediately created by God's hand, or it is the result of a slow evolution from common original forms.

  100. Nor can it be said that this timidity is altogether without excuse, for there was hardly one scientific discovery of the nineteenth century that was not immediately grasped and exploited by eager enemies of the Christian religion.

  101. The physician immediately wired back: "She is a consumptive.

  102. He could not do it, because it is immediately self-evident.

  103. The members of the second team crowded about their idol, Judd, and immediately began plotting the destruction of the "beloved" varsity.

  104. Her dashing, smashing attack had progressed too far to be immediately and successfully blocked.

  105. Judd thanked the coach for giving him this advice and immediately felt better.

  106. McCabe had his men up on their feet and into the game immediately after the play.

  107. Judd dropped off to sleep immediately upon retiring, but nothing short of chloroform could have caused Cateye to lose consciousness while the din kept up.

  108. But on passing to a third, in an angle near the door, his gaze immediately lighted upon a gold ring set with a strange green stone, engraved in a peculiar way.

  109. Both the sounds seemed to come slowly nearer and nearer--the dragging thing being evidently responsible for the hissing; until Cairn decided that the creature must be immediately outside the door.

  110. Immediately under the square black hole they stood and glanced at one another.

  111. Beaumont, a famous lawyer of the Parliament of Paris, immediately took her cause in hand, and drew up an opinion, which was signed by fifteen other lawyers.

  112. He was armed from head to foot, and the first thing he said was that he would immediately sacrifice, as was just, both Memnon and his niece.

  113. Take away all the blood from an animal and all his organs will immediately cease from action.

  114. Pilate being informed that He was a Galilean, sent Him immediately to Herod, the tetrarch of Galilee.

  115. The governor ordered them all to be thrown into a lake with stones about their necks; immediately after which they appeared to Theodotus, and begged of him, “that he would not suffer their bodies to be devoured by the fishes.

  116. God, who conducted His people Himself, punished or rewarded them immediately according to their good or evil deeds.

  117. I ran as fast as I could to this gentleman’s house, not doubting but that he would immediately install me in the wished-for living.

  118. An old incumbent of eighty happened to die, and I immediately travelled post to London to remind the earl of his promise.

  119. The detective did not immediately inquire who the parties were, but he observed that Wagner sought to avoid any further recognition, and just before the close of the last act he said: "I will go out if you will excuse me.

  120. The party questioned did not immediately answer.

  121. The detective was a kind-hearted man, well-to-do financially, and as it occurred not immediately engaged on any special job.

  122. He was off guard, and could not immediately collect himself.

  123. Whatever she expressed a wish for was immediately hers.

  124. Immediately on their marriage, he was going to take her to Schwannberg, that she might see the bursting of the glorious South German spring; but here again occurred a slight difference between them.

  125. This shows how necessary it is that I should have proof of the truth of my view, which proof I shall immediately take steps to find.

  126. Immediately thereafter the accumulation of water will force the jet to spend its energy on the increasing volume, to lift it out of the way so that the continuous inflow may find room.

  127. Immediately above the sphincter muscles on the posterior wall of the rectum the greatest dilatation is found (as shown by the bent probe), and extends on each side with less depth about the anterior wall of the rectum.

  128. Immediately he opened upon them with his two guns, throwing shell into the town.

  129. Moved immediately thereafter, on the Corinth and Hamburg road, toward Hamburg Landing.

  130. If they did this, they were immediately attacked by a powerful and numerous enemy, in the shape of mosquitoes.

  131. Immediately after crossing the creek, one company of the 10th Mo.

  132. This Brigade was immediately posted as follows: The 50th Ill.

  133. Grant had made his appearance in Chicago immediately after the battle of Shiloh, he would have been mobbed, such was the feeling of indignation.

  134. We were immediately ordered into line, and moved three-quarters of a mile further to the right, occupying a position in Gen.

  135. Adjutant, make a detail for five men, to report here immediately for duty.

  136. News of the weakness of our force was immediately carried over the river, and Gen.

  137. Immediately on our right was the 1st Brigade of the 2d Division.

  138. At the expiration of that service, he was mustered out, and immediately mustered in again for three years, unless sooner discharged, retaining still the rank of Major.

  139. She was more successful in another affair, as, immediately after her trip to Rome, in 1378 she induced the rebellious Florentines to come to terms of peace with Urban.

  140. Immediately before Dante's time we see glimmerings of this new sentiment in the work of Guido Cavalcanti and of Cino da Pistoja.

  141. Alfonso of Leon was more than irate when he learned of young Enrico's death and realized the meaning of his son's visit to Castile, and he immediately collected a large army and declared war upon his son.


  142. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "immediately" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    immediately after; immediately afterwards; immediately began; immediately below; immediately followed; immediately opposite; immediately ordered; immediately sent; immediately went